Roberta Baskin spent more than 30 years as an awarding-winning investigative reporter

at CBS News, ABC News, & PBS for “NOW With Bill Moyers” exposing stories of

injustices. Roberta’s storied career garnered more than 75 journalism awards, including

three duPont Columbia Awards, two Peabody Awards, and more than a dozen Emmys.

Her investigations reformed injustices and improved dozens of health and safety

products and practices. She now serves on a number of non-profit boards dedicated to

climate justice and solutions to socio-economic divides.

Nine years ago Roberta shifted her mission to find companies and tell stories about

exemplary businesses helping to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

She co-founded and launched AIM2Flourish.com at Case Western Reserve University.

It now showcases more than 5,200 Global Goals stories written by business school

students in more than 100 countries. Roberta served as key fundraiser, strategist, and

global education promoter. Real Leaders Magazine honored her among its “100

Visionary Leaders.” 

At the heart of the Global Goals is Goal #13: Climate Action, which led to Roberta’s

current service on the Board of Directors of the Climate Democracy Initiative and the

Global Warming Mitigation Project, which annually presents the Carbon Curve Prize.

The prize helps discover the world’s most innovative and effective climate solutions and

has catalyzed exponential growth for countless climate projects and programs.

Roberta’s coverage of COP9 in Milan in 2003 for the PBS program “NOW With Bill

Moyers” galvanized her commitment to explore climate justice issues.

Roberta also serves on the founding boards of The Peace Studio, supporting strengths-

based media-making in the arts and journalism. In addition she’s a founding board

member of FoolProof, a free platform teaching financial literacy, used by 90,000 middle

and high school students nationwide and the recipient of Jumpstart Coalition’s 2024

national “Innovation Award.” Roberta was honored with a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard

University and named an Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute. She served as The

Center for Public Integrity’s executive director, and on the Fund for Investigative

Journalism’s board for 13 years. She continues to serve on the Robert F. Kennedy

Memorial Journalism Committee.

She has traveled the world as a guest lecturer from Baku to Budapest, and from Bilbao

to Borneo. She lives with her retired journalist husband, Jim Trengrove, in a former CIA

safe house overlooking a lake in Virginia.