Wen Stephenson

Wen Stephenson is a veteran journalist, essayist, and climate-justice activist. A contributing writer for The Nation since 2013, and a frequent contributor to The Baffler and Los Angeles Review of Books , he is the author of What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Climate Justice . He has written for many publications, among them The Atlantic, Slate, The New York Times Book Review, and The Boston Globe . A former editor at The Atlantic , he has also served as the editor of the Sunday Boston Globe Ideas section and the senior producer of NPR’s On Point . In 2010, he walked away from his mainstream media career and began to write and engage on issues of climate justice. As a grassroots activist and organizer in New England, he has supported and engaged in numerous campaigns of nonviolent direct action and resistance to the fossil-fuel industry and its backers.