Sonner Kehrt is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wired Magazine, The Verge, and numerous other publications. She has taught courses both at the Fung Institute and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to journalism, she worked as a public affairs officer in the US Coast Guard, where she was stationed in the arctic and divided her time between driving an 18,000-ton polar icebreaker and effectively telling the stories of research being conducted aboard the ship. She holds a Masters of Journalism from UC Berkeley, a Masters of Arts from Georgetown University, and a Bachelors of Science from the US Coast Guard Academy.