Elizabeth Dunbar has been a reporter for MPR News since 2009 and currently covers the environment, energy, and climate change. In 2015, she co-reported a series on climate change in Minnesota that won a Kavli Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2017, she launched “Feeding the Future,” an engagement project on the future of agriculture. Her efforts included setting up a booth at Minnesota Farmfest to chat with farmers and facilitating a closed Facebook group where rural farmers and urban foodies exchange ideas, share perspectives and build trust. The experience has led Dunbar to look for more opportunities to engage people with diverse viewpoints and empower them to collaborate and find solutions to today’s biggest challenges. Previously, Dunbar reported and edited for The Associated Press. She grew up in Iowa and lives in St. Paul with her husband and two young children.