Grennan J Milliken

Grennan Milliken is a Climate Jobs Associate at the Cornell ILR Climate Jobs Institute. He works on achieving a successful transition to a green economy through the equitable creation of high-quality, and readily accessible, union jobs.

Before coming to Cornell, Milliken worked for roughly six years as a journalist reporting on climate change and environmental health concerns. He has written for outlets such as Vice Media and Popular Science on topics ranging from Indigenous rights and pipeline construction to water pollution and public lands.

Milliken also has experience in the building energy sector in New York City. While at the non-profit Building Energy Exchange, he wrote reports on induction cooking, cold climate heat pumps, and retrofitting affordable housing.

In between and around these professions, he’s held jobs laying stone and digging drainage ditches, delivering packages, and operating million-dollar factory machines.

Milliken has an MA in climate science from the Climate and Society program at Columbia University and a BSc in conservation biology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.