Please join Planet Forward and your peers on Fri, Oct 1 from 1 pm to 2:30 pm for this invite-only conversation with an amazing young journalist, whose name you may not yet recognize but whose star is quickly rising. Zinhle Essamuah, who graduated from George Washington University, is a correspondent and host on NowThis News and also is the host of its KnowThis Live on Facebook.
Planet Forward "The Climate Download - A Conversation with Zinhle Essamuah" on Fri Oct 1 @ 1 PM
By Greg Lischke, September 30, 2021
Planet Forward Pillar School Special Event - Fri Oct 1 @ 1:00 PM
Zinhle also has experience behind the camera as a documentary filmmaker, with titles that include The Minority Vote, about issues that faced millennials during the 2016 election, and the award-winning Hands Up (2015), which follows stories of the Black Lives Matter movement.
In 2019 she moderated a United Nations Youth Climate Summit town hall, with the UN Deputy Secretary-General. And earlier this year, Zinhle hosted a one-hour special documentary, released by NowThis and discovery+, centered on the broader challenges of the climate crisis and including a one-on-one interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
During this live virtual event, students will have the chance to ask Zinhle about her career as a journalist and filmmaker. Register for the Zoom Webinar using your school email here.