Join us for a welcome from NNCSS Executive Director, Sarah Brown which will include conference opening and the 2021 Teacher of the Year Award.

Opening Keynote:

The way we understand disasters—and the way journalism handles them—is broken. Can we create a new model that helps us look ahead to future problems?

Vann R. Newkirk II, senior editor at “The Atlantic. He is the host of The Atlantic's podcast Floodlines, a narrative series about Hurricane Katrina. Vann was a 2020 11th Hour Fellow at New America, a 2020 James Beard Award Finalist, and a 2018 recipient of the American Society of Magazine Editors's ASME Next Award.