Climate Stories Ambassadors
Applications for the Spring 2025 Climate Stories Ambassadors cohort are open!
The online training dates are Thursday, April 3, Thursday, April 17, and Thursday May 1, all at 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time.
The online training dates are Thursday, April 3, Thursday, April 17, and Thursday May 1, all at 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time.
Are you excited about building the climate storytelling movement? Climate Stories Project is seeking Climate Stories Ambassadors to carry out interviews and share climate stories from communities around the world.

One of the greatest barriers to an effective and inclusive climate change movement is the lack of everyday conversations between community members about the climate crisis, including observations of change, engagement with emotional responses, and envisioning positive ways forward. As a Climate Stories Ambassador, you'll receive training, structure, and guidance to communicate with others in your community about their personal responses to the changing climate.
Here's what you'll do as a Climate Stories Ambassador:
Here's what you'll do as a Climate Stories Ambassador:
- Take part in three online training sessions.
- Learn about climate storytelling and record your own climate story.
- Receive training and guidance to conduct climate story interviews, and record 1-3 interviews.
- Connect with other Climate Stories Ambassadors from around the world.
- Learn valuable environmental communication skills.
- Promote an inclusive and effective movement to confront the climate crisis.
- Receive a certificate of completion of Climate Stories Ambassadors initiative for sharing your own climate story and at least one climate story interview.

The Climate Stories Ambassadors initiative is open to anyone from all ages and walks of life. You'll come away with a deeper connection to climate change as a vital personal and community issue, and make local, national, and international connections with people passionate about the climate storytelling movement.
The Climate Stories Ambassadors initiative can also be adapted for classroom or organizational use. There is no fee for participation, but registration is required.
The Climate Stories Ambassadors initiative can also be adapted for classroom or organizational use. There is no fee for participation, but registration is required.
I realize how invaluable CSP is as a history archive chronicling first hand accounts of a changing climate at a most crucial time in human history. By collating personal, heartfelt stories through firsthand witnesses, it offers an accessible platform communicating Climate Change where science and the media often fails. The more people who are ambassadors the greater the outreach globally.
Jane F.
Invernessshire , Scottish Highlands , Scotland
Fall 2024 Climate Stories Ambassador
Jane F.
Invernessshire , Scottish Highlands , Scotland
Fall 2024 Climate Stories Ambassador
Not only did the Climate Stories Ambassadors program teach me how to interview others, it helped me find the words to describe my own emotions, hopes, and experiences. Through the program I started to recognize and value resources in my community that I previously took for granted. Through the interview process I reached beyond my own network and got to know and connect with other members of my community in a deeper way.
Kate T.
Cordova, Alaska
Spring 2024 Climate Stories Ambassador
Kate T.
Cordova, Alaska
Spring 2024 Climate Stories Ambassador
Here is the Climate Stories Ambassadors Welcome Packet.
Stories and interviews from our Fall 2024 Climate Stories Ambassadors cohort:
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Prince of God Olorunfemi was interviewed by Climate Stories Ambassador, Princess Ewa. In this excerpt, Prince of God discusses the importance of informing people about climate action and using personal actions, such as cleaning up the local environment and living more sustainably, to help lead others by example.
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In this excerpt from an interview conducted by Climate Stories Ambassador Kyndra Kelley, Anne Joy Cahill-Swenson speaks about her thoughts and experiences when Hurricane Helene devestated areas in North Carolina near where she grew up.
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In this interview excerpt, Hannah Whitley talks about language and climate change.
In this interview excerpt, Amaryllis Adey talks about teaching a Climate Change and Christianity class at Notre Dame.
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Climate Stories Ambassador Elanur Yilmaz Na interviewed Dongkyu Na. In this excerpt, Dongkyu recalls previously thinking that climate issues were none of his business and that science and technology would take care of things. Hearing about climate change in the media and conversations with his wife led him to realize the issues are important to his life.
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Penelope Whitehorn was interviewed by Jane Frere as part of the Climate Stories Ambassadors program. In this excerpt, Penelope speaks about the changes she's seeing in the Scottish Highlands and how human land use combined with climate change leads to biodiversity loss.
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Climate Stories Ambassador Sue Blythe conducted an interview with Betsy Riley of Gainesville, Florida. In this excerpt, Betsy talks about her family's experience during Hurricane Helene as well as her work as Sustainability Manager in Alachua county, Florida.
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Climate Stories Ambassador Pam Lira, interviewed Praise from Myanmar. Last month, while Typhoon Yagi ravaged her hometown with flash floods that devastated thousands, Praise was oceans away in Hawaii, attending a prestigious program on environmental policy. Watching the destruction from afar, the irony of her situation was overwhelming. Now, more than ever, Praise feels a deep resolve to return home, to shield her community from the relentless impacts of climate-driven disasters. In this excerpt from the interview, Praise discusses her vision for a positive environmental future in her community.
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Stories and interviews from our Spring 2024 Climate Stories Ambassadors cohort:
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Listen to excerpts from an interview conducted by Climate Stories Ambassador, Amna Javed. Amna interviewed Habiba Burki, an undergratuate student in Lahore, Pakistan. Habiba discusses her thoughts and emotional responses about climate change.
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Kudakwashe Pembere, from Harare, Zimbabwe, was interviewed by Climate Story Ambassador Blessing Bonga. In this interview excerpt, Kudakwashe discusses how the area around a local dam, which was once a place for fishing and relaxing by the water, has completely dried up due to climate change.
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Edwin Koga is Director of the Amazon Theatrix Ensemble (A.T.E), based in Kisumu, Kenya. A.T.E. is a youth led theater organization offering an artistic platform for the use of "Storytelling for Change" in climate justice. View one of their performances about wetland conservation on YouTube.
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