Meet the fixer: This climate organizer works on the front lines in Miami.

Grist
By Grist staffMar 30, 2017, 6:00 am59 pts
Some kids dream of being a movie star or an astronaut, but not Karina Castillo. “Hurricane Andrew hit when I was 6, and it changed who I was,” she says of the historic storm that devastated a swath of South Florida near where her family lived. She decided right then to become a hurricane forecaster. The…

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