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Hunter Cutting is the principal at Cutting Strategies, providing clients with issue analysis, campaign strategy, and communications. Hunter is a veteran advocate for climate protection and energy transition, beginning his work in this field in 2004 and launching multiple pioneering initiatives.He was a member of the founding team for Climate Nexus, serving as Senior Director for Strategy, assessing the landscape of science, industry, economics, and politics. Hunter scoped and launched the Nexus workstream on U.S. LNG exports and helped to develop the organization’s strategy on greenhouse gas removals and the supply of critical minerals. He led the development and launch of Climate Signals, a first-of-kind science database and digital platform curating climate change attribution literature and providing resources for discussing extreme weather events and other climate change impacts in real time. Hunter is a veteran hand at meetings of the UNFCCC and led the Nexus team at the Paris climate talks where he also served as the U.S. lead on a global team coordinating NGO communications worldwide. Hunter has participated in thirteen IPCC reports. He served as an invited expert reviewer in the AR6 cycle and was seconded to the IPCC Secretariat to assist with report rollout. Currently he serves on the strategic communications council for the IPCC Chair. As a researcher, Hunter has developed new methodologies to extend the field of media analysis. And he has written extensively on communications, including Right Here, Right Now: A Communications Guide to Climate Change Impacts. Hunter built the energy and climate division of Resource Media and helped to launch and lead We Interrupt This Message, a national media strategy center dedicated to building the capacity of front-line organizations working for social justice. Hunter is the co-author, along with Makani Themba, of Talking the Walk: A Communications Guide for Racial Justice (AK Press) named by Dani McClain, writing in the pages of The Nation magazine, as “essential reading for today’s movement for black lives.” Early in his career, Hunter served as a legislative aide in the U.S. House of Representatives and traveled the campaign trail, directing numerous political campaigns and working in swing districts such as Peoria, IL and Riverside, CA.Hunter is a co-founder of Climate Hawks Vote and was a founding board member at the Center for Environmental Health Hunter earned a Bachelor of Science in Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. .

Listed skills include Strategic Communications, Climate Change, Message Development, Public Policy, and 28 others.

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  University Of California, Berkeley

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