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Simran Sethi

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Simran Preeti Sethi (born October 12, 1970 in Munich, Germany) is an Indian American journalist.

Career[edit]

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. 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 (withHazel 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. She is also a contributing editor for Mother Earth News, and the founder of website Metamorphose, an interdisciplinary exploration of the personal and cultural dimensions of transformation.
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 and created an audio podcast series called Tune In: Podcasts About How You Can Make a Difference for Gore's non-profitThe 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 Clinton Global Initiative, keynoted Opportunity Green with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin and organized and spoke at Sowing and Reaping: Christian Perspectives on Food & Agriculture at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. She has been a featured speaker at SXSW Eco’s 2011 Conference, TEDx Plaza Cibeles [1], TEDx Manhattan, the James Beard Foundation Food Conference, SALT Istanbul, the Sustainable Foods Summit in Amsterdam, the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, the University of Southampton’s Interdisciplinary Research Week, the Sustainable Living Festival at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, and at Sydney Opera House's All About Women Festival 2015. She has been identified in Variety's Women's Impact Report as an environmental woman of impact, alongside Laurie David,Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Sheryl Crow. Sethi also was featured on Earth First's 2008 Who's Who in Green List.
Sethi was the host/digital contributor to the PBS series "QUEST: The Science of Sustainability." She has appeared as an environmental expert on various TV programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Martha, and has been featured on American Public Media's Marketplace Weekend, Vatican Radio, and ABC and SBS Punjabi in Australia. 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, and received the 2010 Champion of Sustainability Award from the American College Personnel Association.
Sethi is an associate at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI) at the University of Melbourne in Australia, where she conducted research on the loss of agricultural biodiversity in our food system, and was recently a visiting scholar at the Cocoa Research Centre in St. Augustine, Trinidad. She served as the Kelly Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at St. Catherine University, the largest women’s college in the United States, and was an associate professor of journalism at the University of Kansas from 2007 to 2012. She is currently writing a book on the loss of biodiversity in food and agriculture, titled “Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love,” to be published by HarperCollins Publishers November 10, 2015.

Education[edit]

Sethi graduated cum laude in 1992 from Smith College 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.

Fellowships[edit]

  • 2013 Sugden Fellow, University of Melbourne (Queen's College Campus)
  • Sense-Making Fellow, Poynter Institute
  • Associate Fellow, Asia Society
  • Inaugural Goddard Fellow, New York University

Awards and honors[edit]

  • Tasting Cultures Foundation Grant Recipient (2013)
  • Nominee, Rome Prize at the American Academy of Rome (2010, 2012)
  • 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 Association Champion of Sustainability Award (2010)
  • University of Kansas Center for Sustainability Leadership Award (2009)
  • Official Honoree in the News and Politics category for Sundance Channel's The Good Fight, by the 13th Annual Webby Awards (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)
  • Fourth IRDS Awards for Electronic Media [1]

Books[edit]

  • Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-1-933392-23-3 (with Hazel Henderson)

Press[edit]

  • The Adelaide Review: Table Talk: Dan Barber, Simran Sethi on the future of farming
  • ABC Arts: Simran Sethi: Are we enlightened yet?
  • Triple R News: Every food has a story, you just have to listen to it
  • The Field Guide: Simran Sethi - The Environmental Messenger
  • The Guardian: The craft coffee trend: it’s pricey, but farmers aren’t getting rich
  • SBS Punjabi Radio: A conversation with Simran Sethi – the environmental hero
  • Resurgence & Ecologist: A Resurgence of Heirloom Plants
  • Marketplace Weekend: My money story: Journalist Simran Sethi
  • Dumbo Feather: Simran Sethi is Down to Earth
  • India News Calling: Ms. Simran Sethi, a US Based Journalist & Educator and Devinder Sharma, International Food Analyst along with Vineet Joshi Asst. Media Advisor, Govt. of Punjab, Saurabh Joshi, Councillor addressing the second Navneet Joshi Memorial Lecture
  • Birds of Unusual Vitality: Simran Sethi
  • The Huffington Post: Food Freedom and the People who are Planting the Seeds of Change
  • Simran invited to be a contributor to Global Chorus: A 365-Person Anthology of Worldwide Concern and Enduring Hope
  • Tasting Cultures: Meet our TCF Grantee, Simran Preeti Sethi
  • 21st Century Permaculture: 13th Oct 2013 with Simran Sethi on Food & Culture on Shoreditch Radio
  • PBS QUEST Science: QUEST Google+ Hangout with Simran Sethi about ‘From Farm to Fork to Fuel’
  • ABC Late Night Live: Communicating climate change and food security (with Phillip Adams)
  • ABC Lateline: World Food Diversity is Decreasing
  • Forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften: Food Industry Needs More Collaborations to Address Sustainability Issues
  • Vatican Radio: Faith and the Environment interview with Linda Bordoni
  • ECO: Percorsi di cambiamento verso una società sostenibile
  • Stirring the Pot: The Beginning of Food (Peconic Public Radio, NPR affiliate – eastern Long Island & southern Connecticut)
  • OECD Insights: Why biodiversity matters
  • GreenBiz: Getting behind the psychology of sustainability
  • QualEnergia: Il cambiamento, raccontando rinnovabili e sostenibilità
  • Good Food Jobs: Interview with The Gastrognomes
  • James Beard Foundation: Q & A with Environmentalist Simran Sethi
  • Metropolis Magazine: We Need Us and Them to Become WE
  • elephant journal: What to Say to a Climate Change Skeptic
  • Asia Society: Video: Reframe Climate Change Debate, Says Simran Sethi, and Bridge the Divide
  • TreeHugger: How Not to Convince People to Go Green: Throw More Facts At Them (watch Simran’s TEDxCibeles video here, too)
  • TEDxPlazaCibeles 2012 (Simran featured on pages 16 & 17)
  • Thirty-Year Plan (Simran featured on slide 29)
  • Yo Dona: No Creo En Las Super Women
  • Il Fatto Quotidiano: Ogm, il Senato Usa dice no all’etichetta per prodotti geneticamente modificati
  • The Huffington Post: WATCH: Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto, Hundreds Converge in Support
  • The Atlantic: A Conversation With Simran Sethi, Environmental Journalist
  • Online News Association: Student Summit Explores Diverse Storytelling in the Digital Age
  • EcoSalon: The 20 Most Influential Women in Green
  • Vanity Fair 2007: The Year in Photos
  • Coco Eco Magazine: 2010’s Most influential Women in Green (Simran featured on page 88)
  • Metropolis Magazine: Telling Stories
  • Vanity Fair Green Issue: The Messenger (JPEG will open in new window)
  • The Independent: Eco-Hero of the Planet (JPEG will open in new window)
  • Variety: Environmental Woman of Impact
  • Body + Soul: A Green Goddess
  • Smith College: She Went to Smith: Notable Alumnae
  • AOL Real Estate: Oprah Eco-Expert Simran Sethi Moves To…Kansas?
  • NY Times: On the Road to Farm Aid, the Long, Sweet Way

External links[edit]

  • Website
  • Twitter
  • Resume
  • Media and Environment blog
  • Oprah.com blog
  • Simran Sethi at the Internet Movie Database
  • Inforum of the Commonwealth Club 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
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        Born: October 12, 1970 (age 45), Munich, Germany
        Education: Smith College, Presidio Graduate School
        TV shows: The EcoZone Project, Daily Remix
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        Simran Preeti Sethi (born October 12, 1970 in Munich, Germany) is an Emmy award-winning Indian American journalist and associate professor at the University of Kansas. 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 ... Read more at Wikipedia

        Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1970
        Profession: Writer, Journalist, Presenter
        Nationality: India, United States of America
        Zodiac Sign: Libra 








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