Amanda Griscom Little

Amanda lives in Nashville with her husband and children. Little is the author of Power Trip: The Story of America’s Love Affair With Energy (HarperCollins) and The FAte of Food. She teaches investigative journalism and new media at Vanderbilt University. Little has published widely on the environment, energy, and technology for more than a decade. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Wired, O Magazine, New York, and the Washington Post. She wrote a syndicated weekly column about green politics on Grist and Salon, and a monthly column on green innovation for Outside magazine. She currently writes a blog about the new energy economy for Forbes and is the recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for excellence in environmental journalism.

Little has been working in online media since 1996, when she was the first employee of the first online magazine, FEED. Thereafter she wrote a column for The Village Voice, “Urban Upgrade,” which examined technology in New York City’s institutions and infrastructure. Little has published interviews with public figures ranging from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to John McCain and Rupert Murdoch. She has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, and National Public Radio. Little has also delivered lectures and keynotes for events such as: TEDx, Lexus, Baxter,the Clean-Tech Investor Summit, and the Garden Club of America.