Down to Earth

Blending her own story with tales of climate crisis negotiations, Brianna Craft shows us the world

By Hannelore Sudermann

After graduation, Craft spent a year in AmeriCorps focusing on protecting and restoring the environment. “That helped me figure out that my future was not in doing science,” she says. Instead, she wanted to work with people and policy.

She enrolled at Brown University to pursue a master’s degree in environmental studies. That program led to an opportunity to attend the U.N. climate negotiations as a member of the Republic of The Gambia delegation. That, in turn, prepared her for her current role as a senior researcher at the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development. Her focus at the independent think tank is on the Least Developed Countries Group, ensuring that the lowest contributors to greenhouse gasses and those most affected by climate change have a voice in international climate negotiations.