Journalist, Simran Sehti
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Simran Sethi
Journalist
BIO
Award-winning eco-expert and freelance journalist Simran Sethi is the co-host and writer of Sundance Channel's THE GREEN. Initially a story consultant for the THE GREEN, she is now a featured commentator on the Channel's original series BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET, winner of the Environmental Media Award for Best Documentary, and anchor of the interstitial business series ECOBIZ. Sethi is also the creator of the Sundance Channel web series THE GOOD FIGHT, highlighting global environmental justice efforts.
A member of NBC Universal's internal environmental initiative Green is Universal, Sethi is also the contributing environmental correspondent and expert for NBC News. She is the Lacy C. Haynes Visiting Professional Chair at the University of Kansas School Of Journalism and is writing a book for Harper Collins on the impact of American consumption. She was the contributing author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, a companion guide to the first PBS series on sustainable business for which she served as host and writer.
Lauded as Vanity Fair's 2007 green issue as the environmental "messenger" and identified by Variety as a Woman of Impact, Sethi was named one of the top Eco-Heroes of the Planet by the British newspaper The Independent. She hosted a forum on global warming with Nobel Laureate Al Gore for MSN.com and created an audio podcast series for Gore's non-profit The Alliance for Climate Protection. She has lectured on corporate social responsibility and sustainability in media at conferences, universities, and think tanks, and has appeared on talk shows with Oprah, Martha Stewart and Ellen DeGeneres, highlighting ways we can be more green.
Sethi produced for MTV Asia, MTV India news division, and developed programming for the BBC and others through her own production company SHE TV. She holds an MBA in sustainable management from the Presidio School of Management and graduated cum laude with a BA in Sociology and Women's Studies from Smith College. She was a 2007 NYU Goddard Fellow and is an Associate Fellow for the Asia Society.
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