Sean Holman is the Wayne Crookes professor of environmental and climate journalism at the University of Victoria and founding director of the Climate Disaster Project, an award-winning international teaching newsroom that works with survivors to document and investigate their experiences.
Before entering academia, Holman was an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker in British Columbia. As a journalist, they were best known as the founder and publisher of the influential online public affairs news service Public Eye, as well as the host and producer of the syndicated talk show Public Eye Radio. Their bylines have appeared in the the Guardian, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Vancouver Sun and the Times Colonist.
Holman is a frequent commentator on climate change coverage and government secrecy. Their research focuses on how we use and misuse information, particularly against the backdrop of catastrophic climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as democratic decline.