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PFT in The Hill

9 August 2024 — Mission Driven

PKPR placed an op-ed in The Hill by Pacific Forest Trust’s Laurie Wayburn marking Smokey Bear’s 80th anniversary with a critical examination of how his famous anti-wildfire message has backfired.

Albany Law School in Law360

25 July 2024 — Environment, Mission Driven

Albany Law School Professor Jonathan Rosenbloom wrote an op-ed on Law360 on the rise of state and local environmental leadership in the face of a stymied Congress and a hostile SCOTUS.

Mozilla in the LA Times

5 July 2024 — Internet, Mission Driven, Online Culture, Tech

Read an op-ed by Amazon’s Jen Caltrider, Director of *Privacy Not Included, on the occassion of Amazon’s 30th anniversary.

CASS in Food Dive

7 June 2024 — Mission Driven

For World Oceans Day today, Ryan Bigelow, the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions project director, wrote an op-ed for Food Dive, a leading food industry news outlet, on why the seafood industry must recognize that healthy seas require safeguarding human rights.

The Clinic in Ms.

29 June 2023 — Mission Driven

Ms. Magazine talked to Tara Rynders about how she is using dance to help nurses deal with compassion fatigue and burnout.

Jeff Speck on NPR, podcasts

31 March 2023 — Design, Mission Driven

Jeff Speck’s timely Walkable City – 10th Anniversary Edition, PKPR has booked interviews across leading local NPR stations and podcasts.

Mozilla’s Future Wake in Fast Company

15 January 2022 — Internet, Mission Driven

Law enforcement relies on AI systems that purport to predict crime — but have proven to be biased against Black Americans. Two artist-technologists supported by an award from Mozilla have turned the “predictive policing” model on its head with “Future Wake,” an interactive website that uses AI trained on real law enforcement data to predict […]

BPL op-ed in NY Daily News

24 September 2021 — Literature, Mission Driven, Op-ed

In 2020, hundreds of people across Brooklyn participated in 32 town halls as part of Brooklyn Public Library’s 28th Amendment Project. 

Razan Al Mubarak elected IUCN President

9 September 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

Razan Al Mubarak was elected President of IUCN this week. She is the second woman to lead the organization in its 75-year history and its first president from West Asia. Watch her acceptance speech.

Razan Al Mubarak in Mongabay’s “Conservation Players”

30 August 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

Razan Al Mubarak was interviewed by Mongabay editor-in-chief Rhett Butler as part of the news outlet’s Conservation Players. The series explores nature and sustainability issues and trends with notable conservation leaders from around the world such as The Nature Conservancy’s Jennifer MorrisWWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza and Jinfeng Zhou of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green […]

Razan Al Mubarak op-ed in Eco-Business

11 August 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

In an op-ed published in Eco-Business Razan Al Mubarak argues that addressing the biodiversity crisis requires long-term research field projects advocacy and education as well as institutional overhead like rent and salaries that can best be maintained through unrestricted monetary donations.

Mozilla YouTube Investigation in NBC

23 July 2021 — Internet, Mission Driven

YouTube’s controversial algorithm is recommending videos considered disturbing and hateful by users and which often violate the platform’s very own content policies, according to a crowdsourced investigation released today by Mozilla. The study also found that people in non-English speaking countries are far more likely to encounter videos they considered disturbing. Coverage of the study […]

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.

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.

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 […]

Razan Al Mubarak Calls For Wildlife Recovery Plan

3 June 2020 — Conservation, Mission Driven

While the global lockdown has led to unprecedented reductions in greenhouse gas emissions there is increasing evidence that the pandemic is bringing critical conservation efforts to a halt, harming efforts to prevent biodiversity loss worldwide. In an op-ed written for Mongabay the global conservation and science news outlet Razan Al Mubarak calls for a post-COVID […]

Mozilla on NPR’s Morning Edition

2 December 2019 — Internet, Mission Driven

Ashley Boyd, Mozilla’s Vice President of Advocacy, appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning to discuss this year’s Privacy Not Include holiday shopping guide with host Scott Simon. Listen here.

Mozilla in USA Today

20 November 2019 — Internet, Mission Driven

To help consumers choose gifts that protect the privacy of their friends and family, Mozilla today unveiled its *Privacy Not Included report at a press event in New York City. The report identifies the smart devices and toys that are secure and trustworthy — as well as those that may be spying on your friends […]

Mozilla’s MozFest Tackles Political Disinformation

5 November 2019 — Internet, Mission Driven

In an age of deepfakes and disinformation, more than 2500 activists, policymakers and technologists gathered in London last week at Mozilla’s MozFest to work on creating a better, healthier, and more humane internet. PKPR secured an appearance on CNN for Mozilla Fellow Camille François to discuss how she is using machine learning and data analysis […]

Character Day in Parents, EdSurge

30 September 2019 — Filmmaking, Mission Driven

For the past ten years, Character Day co-founder Tiffany Shlain, her husband, and her two kids have unplugged from their devices every Saturday.

This Mozilla-Funded Film Watches You

27 September 2019 — Internet, Mission Driven

Over a year after the approval of a U.S. patentSnapchat users still don’t know if the app is using facial emotion recognition technology to detect and profit off of their moods. To put pressure on SnapchatMozilla premiered “Stealing Ur Feelings,” a short documentary that uses the same technology to analyze viewers’ emotions as they watch […]