Rachel Donald
Rachel Donald
Topics: Climate crisis – Economics – Politics – Misinformation
Rachel Donald is a climate corruption journalist and the creator of Planet: Critical, one of the world’s leading media platforms covering the polycrisis. The Planet: Critical newsletter has 16,000+ subscribers in 172 countries, and the podcast is in the top 1% globally.
As an independent researcher and writer, Rachel speaks at events around the world bringing light to this political and economic ecosystem: from Blue Earth Summit to Ars Electronica. She regularly collaborates with Mongabay, The David Graeber Institute, Post Carbon Institute and Rubber Republic.
As a journalist, she produced the only independent news show in Malaysia, Radio Free Sarawak. Her exclusive investigations into climate corruption have been published in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Mongabay, The Intercept, Byline Times and the New Republic. She also broke world exclusive stories on Planet: Critical on the resource extractions fuelling the genocides in both Palestine and Sudan. She is currently writing her first book and launching a new video journalism project, Planet: Coordinate.
Website: https://www.planetcritical.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-donald/
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