Yessenia Funes

Yessenia Funes

Yessenia Funes is an environmental journalist telling stories of society's most oppressed. She's been published in The Guardian, Yale Climate Connections, The Verge, Vox, and more. Think of this newsletter as a digital postcard from a friend.

Measured in Love

Bad Bunny’s halftime show was exactly what I needed.

On Kinship With Alex Pretti

For the climate community, there's a sense of kinship with Alex Pretti, the Minnesotan ICE agents killed last month.

This Is Home

I speak with Joi Lee, an independent journalist who left climate media to cover the crisis at home.

Remember 2016?

The criminalization of protests has a long and ugly history, but 2016 was a turning point.

Coal's Dirty Comeback

Clean air saves lives, but Donald Trump wants private industry to save dollars instead.