Leonie Joubert
Science writer and author Leonie Joubert uses different modes of storytelling to grapple with many of today’s tough issues: climate and environmental collapse, energy policy, and why cities leave us hungry, heavy, and sick (the hunger-obesity poverty-paradox). More recently, her work delves into the realm of public mental health.
She has spent the better part of 20 years exploring these topics through books, journalism, communication support to academics and civil society organisations, non-fiction creative writing, and podcasting.
Based in Cape Town, Leonie works with the Daily Maverick’s specialist climate reporting team Our Burning Planet.
Leonie was the 2009 SAB Environmental Journalist of the Year (print/internet category); the 2007 Ruth First Fellow; was listed in the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans You Must Take to Lunch (2008); was twice given an honorary mention in the Sunday Times Alan Paton Nonfiction Awards (2007 and 2010); and was shortlisted for the 2016 City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award.
Categories: ECOLOGY, EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL