Adam Aston

Adam Aston is a climate communicator who, as RMI’s chief storyteller, unifies the journalist craft of storytelling with the analytical rigor of strategic marketing to elevate RMI’s visibility and impact.

Background

As a business journalist, writer, and editor focused on energy and climate, Adam has worked at Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Guardian, GreenBiz, NRDC, and McKinsey & Co. As a vice president and creative leader on the business team at The New York Times, he co-founded T Brand Studio. He also spent a decade in Hong Kong covering Asian economics and business as part of The Economist Group. Born in Pittsburgh, he lives in Brooklyn, where he’s an avid cyclist, an aspiring yogi, and a once and future beekeeper.

Education

Princeton University, BA — English/critical theory and American studies, focusing on the retention, reproduction, and repression of knowledge via library, education, and other institutional policy and practice.

MIT, Media Fellow — Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, bootcamp in energy and climate

Rice University, Media Fellow — Case Media Fellowship, bootcamp in nanotechnology and nanoscience

Other: SOAS/University of London (international economics), City University of New York / CUNY (data visualization and storytelling), and UnionDocs (podcast production)