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Christina Larson is an award-winning magazine writer and editor who has reported widely from across China and Southeast Asia. Her essays and reportage on China, the environment, climate change and civil society have appeared in the The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Smithsonian, TIME, Washington Monthly and the Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. Since 2007, she has chronicled the emergence of China's grassroots environmental movement.

A contributing editor to Foreign Policy magazine, Ms. Larson has also filed dispatches from Southeast Asia, Europe and Mexico. Her reporting in China has been concentrated in western China, where she has interviewed Tibetan shepherds living on the frontier of climate change, activists campaigning against dams and polluting factories, and new migrants to China’s fast-growing cities. She has been a guest to discuss China and the environment on NPR, WNYC, CNN Radio and other stations. Prior to joining Foreign Policy, she was managing editor at Washington Monthly and a freelance correspondent for Christian Science Monitor in China.  Ms. Larson has also been a visiting fellow at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.; the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii; and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University in England. Her profile of Chinese environmentalist Yong Yang, “The Middle Kingdom’s Dilemma,” will be included in the forthcoming anthology of China writing, China From the Ground Up. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, she graduated from Stanford University.

As a fellow at the New America Foundation from 2009-2011, Ms. Larson wrote about a wide array of issues related to the politics and science of climate change. She also reported in China on the intersection of environmental governance and emerging civil society and on Beijing’s ambitions to jumpstart innovation and transform the country from the world’s factory floor into its clean-tech laboratory.