Daisy Simmons, assistant editor at Yale Climate Connections, is a creative, research-driven storyteller with 25 years of professional editorial experience. With a purposeful focus on covering solutions and the humans behind them, she has written feature articles and radio scripts for Yale Climate Connections since 2016. She also helps shape content strategy for a Boulder-based marketing and communications firm focused on sustainability work.
Previously, Daisy served as editorial director for EcoMyths Alliance, a nonprofit partnering with scientists to bring environmental research to life for general audiences. In addition, she coproduced monthly myth-busting radio segments for Chicago Public Media and edited environmental science curricula with the National Wildlife Federation. She has also served as the Chicago editor for Disney’s Ideal Bite and NBC/Universal Chicago, a contributing writer to Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Sequel,” and a writer with work published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Skeptical Science, and more.
Based in the foothills of Northern California’s Sierra Nevada, Daisy is committed to applying her B.A. in creative writing from Colorado College to creatively and credibly write about new ways forward in confronting today’s environmental challenges.
