Lex McMenamin

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Lex McMenamin is the news and politics editor at Teen Vogue and a freelance writer covering politics, identity, activist movements and pop culture. They have been published by the BBC, them., i-D and elsewhere.

In what ways does nature inspire or inform your work?

As a reporter and editor covering climate change and policy, invoking nature through my writing is key to help readers understand the immediacy of these issues — that we’re experiencing them in real time.

What does it mean to you to be part of a thriving ecosystem?

I am inspired by thinkers who connect the innate ways nature works through connection, like mycellium, to our movements and praxis, like adrienne maree brown, Jenny Odell, and Atmos EIC Willow Defebaugh.

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