Devi Lockwood is the Commentary and Ideas editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer and the author of 1,001 VOICES ON CLIMATE CHANGE, a book published by Simon & Schuster on August 24, 2021. Previously she worked as an editor and writer at the New York Times Opinion section and launched the Ideas section at Rest of World. She spent five years traveling in 20 countries on six continents to document 1,001 stories on water & climate change. As a 2018 National Geographic Explorer, she photographed and recorded audio with ArtCirq, an Inuit Arctic performance collective. In 2019 she completed the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT. In 2014 Devi graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude from Harvard where she studied Folklore & Mythology, earned a Language Citation in Arabic, and rowed for the Radcliffe Varsity Lightweight Women's Rowing team. You can read her writing in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, The Washington Post, Bicycling Magazine, Yale Climate Connections, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere.
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Awards, Grants, & Residencies
2020 International Women's Media Foundation Adelante Reporting Fellow, Tapachula, Mexico
2019 New York Times Fellowship, Opinion
2019 Council for the Arts at MIT Grant Recipient
2018 SMASH18 (Science Media Awards & Summit in the Hub) Fellow
2018 National Geographic Explorer with ArtCirq, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada
2017 Sustainable Development Goal Talent at UNLEASH, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Youth Delegate for SustainUS at COP22 (U.N. talks on climate change), Marrakech, Morocco
2015 Montsalvat Artist in Residence, Eltham, VIC, Australia
2014 Gardner & Shaw Postgraduate Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University
2013 Artist Development Fellowship, Harvard University
2012 Carol K. Pforzheimer Student Research Fellowship, Harvard University