About the Show
Climate with Kiana is a podcast exploring climate solutions through a framework of joy and justice. This show explores just and sustainable solutions through conversations with experts and leaders in climate, energy, and sustainability. The show covers key environmental topics within energy justice, clean energy, and sustainable development. Connect to climate solutions and reflect with passionate people who are working on just, innovative, sustainable, and joyful solutions.
The show aims to inspire, educate, spark conversations, and action among friends and colleagues. The episodes seek to uplift the stories and knowledge of seasoned and emerging environmental leaders. Through thoughtful climate justice storytelling, Climate with Kiana hopes to bring people together in shared curiosity and celebration of climate, energy, and sustainability solutions.
Joy and climate optimism are critical tools for environmental work. A radical joy framework counters systemic oppression and constellates care, connection, and change. Operating from a place of joy allows us greater access to sustained energy and ease. Collectively shared joy is a powerful and magnetic tool for transformation. Through sharing stories and advocating for the earth and communities, let us be connected in shared joy.
A justice framework recognizes the intersectional nature of all social justice movements and the earth. This framework recognizes the right to accessible, sustainable, and equitable environmental practices, governance, and outcomes for all people and communities. In order to have a Just Transition to more sustainable energy & economic systems, we must reconcile and remedy the deep social inequalities in our world’s past and present. In the nexus of human communities and the earth, every environmental issue is a justice issue.
This podcast is recorded and produced in New York City, on unceded Munsee Lenape land.
About Kiana
Creator, Host, Producer
Kiana (she/her) is a renewable energy professional, clean energy advocate, and climate justice organizer. Kiana previously worked at Sologistics where she provided permitting, utility interconnection, and project management for hundreds of solar projects across New York City. She has worked with Black Girl Environmentalist on community building and with Our Climate Voices on climate justice storytelling. Kiana has worked with WE ACT for Environmental Justice on equitable solar development. She is an alum of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute Fellowship, OnePointFive Academy, and holds a certificate in Clean Energy from NYU. Kiana served as a member of the advisory panel for the non-profit Diversity in Sustainability, currently serves as a board member at Eco.Logic, a non-profit dedicated to environmental art & education, and is a member of Green Leadership Trust. She is passionate about climate justice storytelling.
About Lucy
Lucy is a NYC-based creative media professional and musician, who spends her time working in and exploring the intersections of sound, visuals, community, and storytelling. Lucy mainly works as a producer, editor, engineer, and composer. Beyond Climate With Kiana, additional work can be found in the podcasts Outside and The Daily Rally (Outside Magazine), Home Base Nation (Mass General Hospital), The Axe Files With David Axelrod (CNN), and more. She’s an engineer with TransLash Media, and additional engineering work can be found in TIME Studio’s Person of the Week podcast, as well with NPR, PRX, Freakonomics Radio, Penguin Random House, Gimlet, the Wall Street Journal, and Crooked Media. Lucy also works as a multi-instrumental musician, composer, and sound designer. She’s scored original theme songs for podcasts, theater, live-scored On Air Fest 2024, and has scored multiple Audible Originals. She’s the violinist in the Chicago-based indie-rock group Half Gringa. She is a U.S. Fulbright alum, and graduate of the University of Chicago and New England Conservatory.