Colleen Hamilton is a multimedia journalist based in Atlanta.

Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Teen Vogue, Fast Company, VICE, The Nation, Them, Time Out, The Food Section, among many other publications.

She is currently a Fellow with the Solutions Journalism Network, collaborating with Teen Vogue on a three-part series exploring youth-led responses to climate change. She also publishes The Sun Will Rise, a newsletter weaving together reporting, essays, and interviews on hope.

Colleen is particularly passionate about using social media to bring rigorous, solutions-oriented journalism to younger audiences in creative and accessible ways.

She has spoken on panels about climate storytelling across the United States, and in 2019, was a Fulbright scholar in Malaysia. She graduated summa cum laude (highest honors) from UCLA, where she studied politics and culture.