Carolyn Holtzman

Carolyn Holtzman is an intern contributing to climate change coverage at The GroundTruth Project. She is a New Orleans native and a recent graduate from Washington and Lee University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Spanish. Before joining GroundTruth, Carolyn interned with The Miami Herald and covered breaking news across South Florida.

New Orleans is sinking and therefore vulnerable to flooding and storm surges.

Environment

How New Orleans’ plans to fight sinking left its own residents out

NEW ORLEANS – The Pentecost Baptist Church in Gentilly is pristine, with freshly cut grass, a well-kept garden...

Sep 09, 2016

Rights

For women in tech, the gender gap is very real

It wasn’t until her first computer science course at Harvard University that Anne Madoff began to realize how...

Aug 25, 2016

The number of female startup founders has grown in recent years, but it's still only around 18 percent.

Rights

Are women venture capitalists better at choosing startups?

When venture capitalist Sheryl Marshall’s investment fund folded as the dot-com bubble began to pop in 1999, she...

Aug 01, 2016

The largest mobile barrier in the world, the Maeslant storm surge barrier was built to protect the Dutch city of Rotterdam from a one-in-10,000-year storm. It's part of the massive investment the Dutch are making to protect themselves in a new era of rising sea levels. (Photo by Bert Knottenbeld/Flickr Creative Commons)

Environment

City officials share lessons from Europe on how to prepare for sea-level rise

Massachusetts state and city officials regrouped in Boston yesterday after a trip to Europe, where they learned about...

Jul 14, 2016