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Author Archives: Patrick Kowalczyk

Women conservationists spotlighted in World Atlas

3 May 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

World Atlas interviewed Razan Al Mubarak and four women who have received grants from the Mohamed Bin Zayed Conservation Fund for a special series of articles on the critical role that women play in biodiversity conservation.

Razan Al Mubarak op-ed in World Economic Forum

28 April 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

In an op-ed published today in the World Economic Forum’s Agenda Razan Al Mubarak discusses why it is essential that women are fully engaged and equally represented in biodiversity conservation — at the grassroots level and in the leadership of governments and NGOs.

Panthera on NPR’s Science Friday

16 April 2021 — Environment, Mission Driven

An innovative audio monitoring initiative that records noises such as gunshots and barking dogs is helping authorities track and curtail jaguar poachers.

On Air Fest Returns for 2021

12 April 2021 — Art, MUSIC

The Nod’s Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (above), Fresh Air’s Terry Gross, mxmtoon, and Charlie Harding are among the headliners of On Air Fest 2021.

Object of Sound in Vanity Fair

6 April 2021 — Art, MUSIC

Sonos Radio’s Object of Sound with Hanif Abdurraqib continues to win raves. PKPR secured an awesome profile of Abdurraqib by Justine Goode of Vanity Fair.

Doulagivers in PopSugar

26 March 2021

After Riley Keough — granddaughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley — announced that she is on her way to becoming a certified death doula, PopSugar interviewed, Suzanne O’Brien, RN, the founder of the International Doulagivers Institute, for a story on what death doulas do.

Razan Al Mubarak profiled in Financial Times

13 February 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

In an interview with the Financial Times Razan Al Mubarak discusses why she believes the existential twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are the greatest challenges of our time.

Tiger Party

28 January 2021 — Internet, Online, Viral

An estimated one billion people worldwide watched the 2021 New Year ball drop and countdown in Times Square.

Panthera in Smithsonian Magazine

21 January 2021 — Environment

Smithsonian looks at a new study from Panthera providing evidence that gray wolves are primary drivers of the decline in puma populations in Northwest Wyoming.

Moleskine in Cultured Magazine

4 December 2020 — Lifestyle

For Cultured Magazine’s Instagram, PKPR set up a video tour of the studio of artist Dinara Mirtapilova, who created notebooks for the new Moleskine Collection.

Deanna Van Buren on WNYC

15 October 2020 — Design

Deanna Van Buren of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces discusses how architects are taking the lead in building alternatives to prisons.

Razan Al Mubarak op-ed in Sustainability Times

26 August 2020 — Conservation, Mission Driven

For more than a decade, scientists like Luis Ortiz-Catedral have been working to protect the Galápagos pink land iguana. The species faces a range of threats including feral cats and rats which prey on eggs and young reptiles. Their scientists’ work however, came to a halt in April when the COVID-19 lockdown in Ecuador went […]

DJDS in Ms. + Fast Company

10 July 2020 — Design

As the debate grows for defunding police and shifting financing, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces is working toward a world without prisons.