Kristin George Bagdanov is a writer, researcher, editor, and environmental advocate. She received her PhD in Literature from U.C. Davis, where she studied the relationship between cultural production, energy crises, and social movements. Her dissertation, “Nuclear Poetics: Energizing Social Forms in Cold War America” explores how poet-activists shaped the anti-nuclear movement in the U.S. during the 1970’s and 80’s. Specifically, it explores how Black, Indigenous, queer, feminist, and anti-capitalist writers theorized America’s radioactive nation-building project. She also earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Colorado State University and has two poetry collections: Fossils in the Making (2019, Black Ocean) and Diurne (Tupelo Press, 2019), winner of the 2019 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize.

She currently works with the Building Decarbonization Coalition as the Senior Manager of Policy Research to help realize the goal of zero-emission buildings in the U.S. Authored and co-authored reports include Neighborhood Scale: The Future of Building Decarbonization (2023) and Decarbonizing the Obligation to Serve (2024). More at LinkedIn and Twitter/X at @KristinGeorgeB.