Brett Essler

SIPA Magazine, the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs' annual print publication, of which I have been the managing editor since 2018.

Many scientists believe that a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids are a significant factor in the widespread death of bees.

In January 2021 I curated this four-part series of panels on food justice, focused on climate change, food insecurity and hunger, food waste and composting, and other topics.

Book trailer for Janet McNally's 2016 book "Girls in the Moon" (HarperTeen)

MTV picks up SIPA-student-designed campaign to raise public awareness.

I coproduced, researched, and interviewed the subject for this Green New Deal video.

SIPA's FY21 Annual Report, for which I am the project manager.

Open Polar Sea is a multimedia zine about nineteenth-century polar expeditions, climate collapse, and mythology.

Photo essay published in Treehugger, April 29, 2013

Submerging is a zine/chapbook featuring personal essays, fiction, poetry, and photography, of which I am the coeditor and graphic designer.

SIPA alumna Sophie Collyer works at the intersection of policy analysis and social justice.

The end of New York’s urban beekeeping ban wrought hundreds of honey-making hobbyists. But even the movement’s most fervent supporters wonder if it has grown too far too fast.

Book trailer for Janet McNally’s 2018 book “The Looking Glass” (HarperTeen)

I was the coproducer, shooter, and editor for this 2017 video profile of CBS alumni Ron Gold.

When this ground-breaking photographer summered on Lake Champlain.