Kelsey Simpkins is a writer, photographer, and artist with a master’s degree in journalism. She works for the University of Colorado Boulder as a science and news writer, and media relations specialist.
She is a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Science Writers Association of the Rocky Mountains (SWARM), and a 2021 Nature Environment Science Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts Community Artist Fellow.
In 2012, she graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, with a B.A. in art, art history, and environmental studies. Her undergraduate research focused on the intersections between environmental and art movements of the 1970's through present day, culminating in a senior solo show, "The End of the World." She is continually interested in the overlap between the environment, the arts, and social movements of past and present.
She attended the Smith College Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies in Northampton, Massachusetts in the summer of 2012, followed by an internship at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In the Twin Cities she also worked in environmental nonprofit fundraising and communications, and freelanced in the arts and music scene. She has written and photographed for Walker Art Center, Rift Magazine, Sofar Sounds Minneapolis, Bandsintown.com, and Billboard Magazine. She runs her own music blog, The Aural Premonition, is a staff writer for Bearded Gentlemen Media and previously wrote for Indie Shuffle.
She received her Master of Arts in environmental journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018, where she worked as the lead graduate assistant for two years in the Center for Environmental Journalism, focusing on stories about environmental issues and climate change. Additionally, she received grants from the Royal Norwegian Embassy, University of Colorado Boulder, and the Nevada Museum of Art to travel globally and report on the intersection of arts and the environment in the Arctic. She spent the summer of 2017 working in public information (science writing) for the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C., and in the spring of 2018 she was an Editorial Fellow with Nature Conservancy magazine.
A result of projects in her graduate career, she continues to report on the intersection of arts, artists and climate change in the Arctic, as well as sustainability policy and practice in regards to legal recreational cannabis cultivation and consumption—which she moderated a panel on at the 2019 Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Since 2018 she has worked domestically and internationally in the fields of climate change and science communication, media relations and digital engagement.
She is a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Science Writers Association of the Rocky Mountains (SWARM), and a 2021 Nature Environment Science Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts Community Artist Fellow.
In 2012, she graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, with a B.A. in art, art history, and environmental studies. Her undergraduate research focused on the intersections between environmental and art movements of the 1970's through present day, culminating in a senior solo show, "The End of the World." She is continually interested in the overlap between the environment, the arts, and social movements of past and present.
She attended the Smith College Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies in Northampton, Massachusetts in the summer of 2012, followed by an internship at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In the Twin Cities she also worked in environmental nonprofit fundraising and communications, and freelanced in the arts and music scene. She has written and photographed for Walker Art Center, Rift Magazine, Sofar Sounds Minneapolis, Bandsintown.com, and Billboard Magazine. She runs her own music blog, The Aural Premonition, is a staff writer for Bearded Gentlemen Media and previously wrote for Indie Shuffle.
She received her Master of Arts in environmental journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018, where she worked as the lead graduate assistant for two years in the Center for Environmental Journalism, focusing on stories about environmental issues and climate change. Additionally, she received grants from the Royal Norwegian Embassy, University of Colorado Boulder, and the Nevada Museum of Art to travel globally and report on the intersection of arts and the environment in the Arctic. She spent the summer of 2017 working in public information (science writing) for the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C., and in the spring of 2018 she was an Editorial Fellow with Nature Conservancy magazine.
A result of projects in her graduate career, she continues to report on the intersection of arts, artists and climate change in the Arctic, as well as sustainability policy and practice in regards to legal recreational cannabis cultivation and consumption—which she moderated a panel on at the 2019 Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Since 2018 she has worked domestically and internationally in the fields of climate change and science communication, media relations and digital engagement.