Sean Peoples
Sean Peoples is a multimedia producer working with the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program.
Through documentaries, interviews, and podcasts, Sean explores the intersection of conservation and health in the developing world. The short documentary Broken Landscape: Confronting India’s Water-Energy Choke Point won Honorable Mention in the category of Outstanding Feature Story by the Society of Environmental Journalists' Awards for Reporting on the Environment, as well as a 2015 Silver Telly award. Other Telly Award-winning documentaries produced by Sean include Healthy People, Healthy Environment: Integrated Development in Tanzania and Scaling the Mountain: Protecting Forests for Families in Nepal.
Sean served as a program associate at the Wilson Center for nine years. Before that, he worked as associate director for Congressional Programs at the Population Resource Center. Sean has a BA from American University in political science with a focus on environmental policy issues.
Twitter: @S_Peoples
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Ethan Zindler on Clean Energy in Emerging Markets: “The Private Sector Sees the Opportunity”
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“The good news is clean energy has gotten much cheaper,” says Ethan Zindler, head of the Americas for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, on this week’s podcast. “The amount of stuff getting built for the same number of dollars has been going up. You’re getting more ‘bang for your buck’ when it comes to actual deployment.” -
Mike Eckhart: “We Are 40 Years Into a 100-Year Energy Transition”
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“In my view, we are 40 years into a 100-year transition to a clean energy economy,” says Mike Eckhart, global head of environmental finance and sustainability at Citigroup, in this week’s podcast. “We’re in the mainstream of building an industry.” -
Jagdish Upadhyay: Don’t Wait for the Demographic Dividend, Seize It
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“The demographic dividend is about inclusive growth, not just economic growth,” says Jagdish Upadhyay, chief of commodity security at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in this week’s podcast. “If it’s not inclusive, achieving the demographic dividend will be difficult.” -
Kate Gilmore on Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the “Toughest of Times, in the Hardest of Places”
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“Right now, 1.5 billion people are living in humanitarian crisis – living in conflict-afflicted regions,” says Kate Gilmore, deputy executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in this week’s podcast. -
Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda on Elevating Young Female Leaders By Giving Them Space
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“The demographic data is telling us that the future is very young and the future is very female,” says Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a lawyer and general secretary of the World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA), in this week’s podcast. “And therefore, we actually have an imperative to respond.” -
From One Generation to the Next: New Wilson Center Film Explores Integrated Development in Ethiopia
›June 17, 2015 // By Sean PeoplesOn a warm January afternoon, Tesema Merga, a village elder in Endibir, Ethiopia, surveyed the latest improvements to the long dirt road just outside his house. Eventually this road will be paved, which will bring significant changes to the community.
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Broken Landscape: Confronting India’s Water-Energy Choke Point
›“We don’t know the reason for the death of fish in downstream villages,” Hamberton Nongtdu, a mine owner from the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, told me.
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In Nepal, Integrating Forest and Family Health Is Improving Lives
›March 24, 2014 // By Sean Peoples
For years, the Chepang people have lived off the land in Nepal’s forested central foothills. Communities cleared trees to start small subsistence farms, harvested the surrounding area for firewood, and eventually moved on after the wood, soil, and water were depleted.
