Audio: Interview with Human Rights Journalist Turned Climate Change Researcher

Steve Curwood has spent twenty five years reporting on environmental issues. Before that, he was an investigative journalist with a focus on human rights and social justice. Turns out, those issues aren’t as disparate as they may seem.

As a young, African-American man, the son of a single mother, and a Quaker, the issues on Curwood’s mind were civil rights, poverty, women’s rights, and the war in Vietnam.

In 1970, within a year of graduating from Harvard University, Curwood broke a story for the Boston Phoenix linking Polaroid to apartheid in South Africa. The Cambridge-based company’s instant photo technology was being used to create pass-cards that black South Africans were required to carry.

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