Janice Cantieri
About Janice Cantieri
Janice Cantieri is a Seattle-based environmental journalist. She spent a year living in the Pacific Island Nations of Kiribati and Fiji as a Fulbright National Geographic Storytelling Fellow documenting how Indigenous communities in low-lying islands are adapting to extreme environmental changes like sea level rise and strip-mining. She has since documented stories of climate adaptation and resilience from farmers coping with severe drought in India to Indigenous women leading a solar revolution in Canada. She has a Master’s of Science in Journalism from the Medill Graduate School of Journalism at Northwestern University and her work has been published in National Geographic, YES! Magazine, the Narwhal, and Atmos Magazine.
Indigenous women lead self defence classes across the country
“I could have been that missing woman — I would have been just another missing woman in a camp, or just another young Indigenous girl beat up by her boyfriend.” Instead, she decided to fight back.