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Simran Sethi is a freelance journalist, focusing on social and environmental sustainability. The award-winning journalist is a contributing environmental correspondent for NBC News and the Lacy C. Haynes Visiting Professional Chair at the University of Kansas School of Journalism, where she currently teaches a course on Media and the Environment. Sethi is writing a book on environmental justice for Harper Collins and is the contributing author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, winner of the bronze 2008 Axiom Award for Best Business Ethics book. The book is the companion guide to the first PBS series on sustainable business Ethical Markets for which Sethi served as host and writer. She is New York University's inaugural Goddard Fellow and an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society.
Sethi is the co-host/ writer of Sundance Channel's environmental programming The Green, and a featured commentator and former story consultant for the original series Big Ideas for a Small Planet, the 2007 Environmental Media Award winner for Best Documentary. She is the the anchor of the Sundance interstitial business series EcoBiz and creator of the Sundance web series The Good Fight, highlighting global environmental justice efforts and featuring grassroots organizers including Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai and the "father" of environmental justice Robert Bullard. Sethi is the host of the Emmy-award winning PBS production A School in the Woods, highlighting environmental education efforts on Bainbridge Island.