Jess Stahl is the editor for creative storytelling and co-director at Fix, Grist’s solutions lab. In that role, she directs strategy and content for a team dedicated to imagining what a better climate future could look like and reporting on the people and solutions moving us towards it. Before coming to Grist, she was the director of audio at The Washington Post, where she launched the newspaper’s podcast operation, growing it into an award-winning industry leader in both innovation and audience reach. Jess was previously The Post’s deputy editor for audience, overseeing a newsroom group focused on developing targeted audience growth strategies and smart multimedia content. That team won an Edward R. Murrow award for its work during the 2016 presidential election. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins SAIS and Princeton University, and lives in Washington, D.C., with her pandemic rescue dog.