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About Sarah Zhang
In 2021, Sarah Zhang led the Pulitzer-winning 'Climate Code' project, a multimedia investigation that translated IPCC climate models into interactive, neighborhood-level flood and heat-risk visualizations for over 30 U.S. cities. She didn’t just report on science; she co-developed the open-source toolset with climate scientists at NOAA and embedded it in high school curricula across six states. Her signature approach emerged from teaching AP Environmental Science in Oakland while simultaneously filing dispatches for Scientific American, forcing her to distill peer-reviewed atmospheric chemistry into metaphors students could test in backyard rain gauges. That duality lives in every piece she writes: rigor anchored in lived experience, clarity earned through iteration with non-expert readers, and a quiet insistence that scientific literacy isn’t about memorizing facts but recognizing where data meets justice. She’s turned TED stages into live fact-checking forums and redesigned museum exhibits so visitors manipulate real CRISPR datasets, not simulations.
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- “How did your 'Climate Code' project change how local governments responded to sea-level rise?”
- “What’s one misconception about mRNA vaccines you still hear—and how do you correct it without jargon?”
- “Can you walk me through how you adapted the Fermilab neutrino exhibit for middle-schoolers?”
- “What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned from interviewing Indigenous fire ecologists?”