Associate Professor, George Washington University
Sabrina McCormick is a sociologist and filmmaker who works to address climate change. She is Associate Professor at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, and Senior Fellow at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. McCormick’s recent research includes the social/scientific dynamics of climate litigation strategies in the U.S., Brazilian energy development in the Amazon, climate change in American cities, and the health implications of climate change, among others. She is currently producing/co-directing TRIBE, a feature narrative film set in the Brazilian Amazon. McCormick was Producer and Associate Producer on the Showtime series, THE YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (2014 Emmy Best Non-Fiction Series). Her first film, NO FAMILY HISTORY, documented the environmental causes of breast cancer and was used as a tool to reshape the breast cancer debate. McCormick has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the Global Change Research Program at the Environmental Protection Agency, at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program. She has advised Congress, the Department of State and the White House on climate change issues, and has also served as Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and expert reviewer for the National Academy of Sciences.