Jenny Price

Jenny Price is a public writer, artist, and historian. She tells stories about environmental justice, especially, in a variety of solo and collaborative creative formats.

Author of “Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto” and “Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America,” her writings also include “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.’’ (Believer) and other essays, as well as op-eds in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

As a co-founder of the LA Urban Rangers public art collective, she has co-created such projects as Malibu Public Beaches, Water Bar, and Public Access 101: Downtown LA, and has exhibited or been a resident artist at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. As a more recent co-founder of the St. Louis Division collective, she co-conjured the “Superfun!” website and co-designed the “If You Need to Use the Art” tour for the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. As a solo artist, she designed Nature Trail for Laumeier Sculpture Park as a permanent commission. She helped create the 2024 “Stop Saving the Planet?” video series on PBS Digital; and in 2013 she co-launched the popular mobile-phone app Our Malibu Beaches, which shares information to find and use a public beach in Malibu.

She has an AB from Princeton University and a PhD in history from Yale University. A former Guggenheim Fellow and NEH Fellow, she has been a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (1998-2014), a senior fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, and the Barron Visiting Professor in Environment and the Humanities, Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies, and Atelier Program guest artist at Princeton University.

Price is currently working on a short new book about the crisis of gun violence in the U.S.