Simran Sethi
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Simran Preeti Sethi is an Emmy award-winning Indian American journalist and associate professor at the University of Kansas
.
Sethi returned to the United States in 1999 and hosted Daily Remix for Oxygen Media
. After working as a consultant for business and activist groups, she became the anchor/writer for the public television series Ethical Markets. Sethi is the contributing author (with Hazel Henderson) to the companion book for that series, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy which was awarded a 2007 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Business/Conscious Leadership and a 2008 Axiom Bronze Business Book Award for Business Ethics.
Sethi co-created, hosted and oversaw all video and audio content as executive producer for TreeHugger.com, the largest environmental website on the Internet. Under her management, TreeHugger won the 2006 Vloggie for Best Green Vlog.
Lauded in Vanity Fair: The Green Issue as "The Green Messenger," Sethi hosted a forum on global warming with Nobel Laureate Al Gore for Al Gore on Live Earth and created an audio podcast series called Tune In: Podcasts About How You Can Make a Difference for Gore's non-profit The Alliance for Climate Protection. She also was named Eco-Hero of the Planet by the UK's Independent in July 2007. Sethi has moderated panels for the White House Symposium GreenGov, and hosted a forum on global warming. Recently, she has been a featured speaker at SXSW Eco’s 2011 Conference, a moderator at Slow Money’s 2011 National Gathering, and a presenter at WiserTuesdays in Paris. She has been identified in Vanity Fair's Women's Impact Report as an environmental woman of impact, alongside Laurie David, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Sheryl Crow. Sethi also made the 2008 Best Dressed Environmental List, and was featured on Earth First's 2008 Who's Who in Green List.
Sethi has appeared as an environmental expert on various TV programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
and Martha
. She has contributed to NBC Nightly News
, MSNBC, CNBC and The Today Show
, and wrote/hosted the Powering the Planet series for CNBC. She is the creator of The Sundance Channel web series The Good Fight, highlighting global environmental justice efforts, and, along with Majora Carter
, was the founding host of The Sundance Channel's environmental block The Green
. Sethi formerly served on the board of advisors for New York City-based NPR station WNYC
, and on the board of directors for the National Radio Project. She is the 2009 recipient of the Smith College Medal, awarded to alumnae demonstrating extraordinary professional achievements and outstanding service to their communities. Simran won the KU Sustainability Leadership Award in 2009, and was awarded the 2010 Champion of Sustainability Award from the American College Personnel Association.
As an associate professor at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of Kansas
, Sethi teaches courses on sustainability and environmental communications. She served on the Sustainability Advisory Board for the City of Lawrence, Kansas, and is the former chair of the City’s working group on climate change policy, education and outreach. Sethi was a contributing editor for Mother Earth News. She has created a series of blog posts on products' life cycles and the impacts of everyday consumption for The Huffington Post
and wrote about her eco-friendly home renovations in a year-long series for Oprah.com. Her posts are also featured on The Healthy House Institute website, and she served on HHI's advisory board. Sethi also serves on the advisory board for the Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming.
with a BA in sociology
and gender studies
. In 2005, she was awarded an MBA in sustainable business by the Presidio Graduate School
, San Francisco.
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
.
Career
Sethi began her media career in 1993 as a documentary producer for MTV News. In 1994, she became a reporter/producer for MTV Networks Asia News, eventually taking the anchor chair in 1995. She co-created and ran the news department for MTV India in 1996. Sethi anchored and produced their news broadcast until 1997, after which she developed her own production company, SHE TV.Sethi returned to the United States in 1999 and hosted Daily Remix for Oxygen Media
Oxygen (TV channel)
Oxygen is an American cable television specialty channel with television programming marketed towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.- History :...
. After working as a consultant for business and activist groups, she became the anchor/writer for the public television series Ethical Markets. Sethi is the contributing author (with Hazel Henderson) to the companion book for that series, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy which was awarded a 2007 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Business/Conscious Leadership and a 2008 Axiom Bronze Business Book Award for Business Ethics.
Sethi co-created, hosted and oversaw all video and audio content as executive producer for TreeHugger.com, the largest environmental website on the Internet. Under her management, TreeHugger won the 2006 Vloggie for Best Green Vlog.
Lauded in Vanity Fair: The Green Issue as "The Green Messenger," Sethi hosted a forum on global warming with Nobel Laureate Al Gore for Al Gore on Live Earth and created an audio podcast series called Tune In: Podcasts About How You Can Make a Difference for Gore's non-profit The Alliance for Climate Protection. She also was named Eco-Hero of the Planet by the UK's Independent in July 2007. Sethi has moderated panels for the White House Symposium GreenGov, and hosted a forum on global warming. Recently, she has been a featured speaker at SXSW Eco’s 2011 Conference, a moderator at Slow Money’s 2011 National Gathering, and a presenter at WiserTuesdays in Paris. She has been identified in Vanity Fair's Women's Impact Report as an environmental woman of impact, alongside Laurie David, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Sheryl Crow. Sethi also made the 2008 Best Dressed Environmental List, and was featured on Earth First's 2008 Who's Who in Green List.
Sethi has appeared as an environmental expert on various TV programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres. Debuting on September 8, 2003, it is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication, including stations owned by NBC Universal. For its first five seasons, the show...
and Martha
Martha (TV series)
Martha, also known as The Martha Stewart Show, is an American, weekday one-hour talk show hosted by Martha Stewart. Previously airing in first-run syndication, the show began exclusively airing on cable network Hallmark Channel since September 13, 2010.-History:The program originally debuted on...
. She has contributed to NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News is the flagship daily evening television news program for NBC News and broadcasts. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is located in the center...
, MSNBC, CNBC and The Today Show
The Today Show
Today is an iconic American morning news and talk show airing every morning on NBC. Debuting on January 14, 1952, it was the first of its genre on American television and in the world. The show is also the fourth-longest running American television series...
, and wrote/hosted the Powering the Planet series for CNBC. She is the creator of The Sundance Channel web series The Good Fight, highlighting global environmental justice efforts, and, along with Majora Carter
Majora Carter
Majora Carter is an economic consultant, public radio host, and environmental justice advocate from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx before entering the private sector.-Early life:Carter...
, was the founding host of The Sundance Channel's environmental block The Green
The Green
The Green may refer to:* The Green , a central field at Dartmouth College* The Green, Cumbria, a village in Cumbria, England* St Mary's CBS , a secondary school in Tralee...
. Sethi formerly served on the board of advisors for New York City-based NPR station WNYC
WNYC
WNYC is a set of call letters shared by a pair of co-owned, non-profit, public radio stations located in New York City.WNYC broadcasts on the AM band at 820 kHz, and WNYC-FM is at 93.9 MHz. Both stations are members of National Public Radio and carry distinct, but similar news/talk programs...
, and on the board of directors for the National Radio Project. She is the 2009 recipient of the Smith College Medal, awarded to alumnae demonstrating extraordinary professional achievements and outstanding service to their communities. Simran won the KU Sustainability Leadership Award in 2009, and was awarded the 2010 Champion of Sustainability Award from the American College Personnel Association.
As an associate professor at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of Kansas
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
, Sethi teaches courses on sustainability and environmental communications. She served on the Sustainability Advisory Board for the City of Lawrence, Kansas, and is the former chair of the City’s working group on climate change policy, education and outreach. Sethi was a contributing editor for Mother Earth News. She has created a series of blog posts on products' life cycles and the impacts of everyday consumption for The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...
and wrote about her eco-friendly home renovations in a year-long series for Oprah.com. Her posts are also featured on The Healthy House Institute website, and she served on HHI's advisory board. Sethi also serves on the advisory board for the Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming.
Education
Sethi graduated cum laude in 1992 from Smith CollegeSmith College
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...
with a BA in sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
and gender studies
Gender studies
Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyses race, ethnicity, sexuality and location.Gender study has many different forms. One view exposed by the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one"...
. In 2005, she was awarded an MBA in sustainable business by the Presidio Graduate School
Presidio School of Management
Presidio Graduate School is a higher-education institution based in San Francisco, California, offering graduate level programs in sustainable management, including those for MBA, MPA, and Executive Education...
, San Francisco.
Fellowships
- Sense-Making Fellow, Poynter Institute
- Associate Fellow, Asia Society
- Inaugural Goddard Fellow, New York University
Awards and honors
- National Education Association Award for the Challenge to Innovate Mobile Project (2011)
- EcoSalon's The 20 Most Influential Women in Green (2010)
- American College Personnel AssociationAmerican College Personnel AssociationAmerican College Personnel Association - College Student Educators International is a major student affairs association headquartered in Washington, D.C. at the National Center for Higher Education....
Champion of Sustainability Award (2010) - University of Kansas Center for Sustainability Leadership Award (2009)
- Selected as an Official Honoree in the News and Politics category for Sundance Channel's The Good Fight, by the 13th Annual Webby AwardsWebby AwardsA Webby Award is an international award presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for excellence on the Internet with categories in websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile....
(2009) - Recipient of Smith College Medal (2009)
- Silver Telly Award for Jayni's Kitchen: From Farm to Fork (2008)
- Regional EMMY Award for Best School/Educational Program for Natural Heroes: A School in the Woods (2008)
- Axiom Bronze Medal for Best Business Ethics Book: Ethical Markets: Growing The Green Economy (2008)
- Nautilus Silver Medal Recipient for Best Book in the Business and Conscious Leadership Category: Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2007)
- Environmental Media Award: Best Environmental Documentary for Sundance Channel's Big Ideas for a Small Planet (2007)
- Webby Award for Peoples Voice Award for TreeHugger.com (2007)
- Vloggie Award for Best Green Vlog for TreeHugger.com (2007)
- New York International Film and Television Award for MTV News 24 Hours in Rock and Roll (1995)
- Cable ACE Award for MTV News Hate Rock (1994)
- New York International Film and Television Award for MTV News Help Not Wanted (1991)
- Houston Worldfest Award for MTV News Help Not Wanted (1991)
- New York International Film and Television Award for MTV News Freaks, Nerds, and Weirdoes (1990)
- Houston Worldfest Award for MTV News Sex in the '90s (1989)
Books
- Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-1-933392-23-3 (with Hazel Henderson)
Press
- The Business of a Better World: “In Your Words: Journalist and Author Simran Sethi”
- Construire notre futura (Building our future): Change maker: Simran Sethi
- WiserEarth So What’s Stopping Us All From Going Green? (click here for the article in French)
- EcoSalon Lessons from SXSW Eco #1: Changing How We Communicate
- The Christian Post Christians Urged to Help Solve Food Crisis
- EcoSalon The 20 Most Influential Women in Green
- Vanity Fair 2007 The Year in Photos
- NPR affiliate KCUR Central Standard
- The Chronicle Dumping on Poor Folks
- PR Newswire Is Your Neighborhood Killing You?
- Vanity Fair Green Issue The Messenger
- The Independent Eco-Hero of the Planet
- Coco Eco Magazine 2010's Most Influential Women in Green
- Metropolis Magazine Telling Stories
- The Pan-American Environmental journalist speaks her mind
- Earthfirst Who's Who in Green
- elephant journal Simran Sethi: The Face of Green Media
- The University Daily Kansan Environmentalist Shares Her Passion With Lawrence
- Body + Soul Magazine A Green Goddess
- The Pitch Kansas City Best Of 2007: Best Celebrity
- Good Times Weekly Renewable Power to the People
- Lawrence Journal-World KU Environmental Journalist on 'Oprah'
- Minneapolis-St Paul Star Tribune Let Them Eat Pie Photo Gallery
- Winston-Salem Journal Being Herself: 'Green' activist finds way to get her messages out
- Variety Crow, Laurie David, Melissa Etheridge, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Simran Sethi, Bonnie Raitt Celebrities Focus on Environmental Issues in Various Ways
- Lawrence.com Red, White and Green
- Domino Magazine My Green Life: the on-the-go journalist
- Common Ground Magazine Conversations: Simran Sethi
External links
- Tumblr
- Website
- Media and Environment blog
- Oprah.com blog
- Inforum of the Commonwealth ClubInforum of the Commonwealth ClubInfourm is an off-shoot organization of the Commonwealth Club of California that hosts panel discussions, debates, and social events for people in their 20s and 30s in the San Francisco Bay Area...
Bio-debatable: Busting Through the Clutter of Conflicting Eco-Messages - NPR—KCUR The Walt Bodine Show
- NPR—WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show Green Lining On A Silver Tree
- NPR—KCUR Up To Date with Simran Sethi
- Meet the Bloggers
- Simran Sethi interviews Van Jones at Bioneers by the Bay
- Bioneers By The Bay podcast
- Simran Sethi Podcast 'Fighting The Good Fight for Mother Earth'
- In These Times Addressing the State of the Environmental Movement