Alanna Mitchell

Alanna Mitchell is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author. Her book, Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, won the prestigious U.S.-based Grantham Prize for excellence in environmental journalism in 2010. She turned it into a one-woman play in 2014 and has been performing it ever since, in Canada and other countries. Her e-book Invisible Plastic: What Happens When Your Garbage Ends Up in the Ocean was published by the Toronto Star in 2013. Mitchell also writes freelance magazine and newspaper articles and occasionally makes radio documentaries for CBC. Her writing as been featured in the New York Times science section, CBC’s Quirks & Quarks, National Geographic, the Guardian, GQ India and Canadian Geographic Magazine. Mitchell is also a prolific, inspirational public speaker.