Kyle Obermann Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Http://Www.Kyleobermannphotography.Com/

• Individually produced and documented 40 breaking indigenous environment and climate stories across China. Worked in Mandarin and published via film, photography, and text with local and international news platforms while maintaining own platforms of over 300,000 followers.• Freelance reporting on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Western and Eastern comparative conservation published in National Geographic, bioGraphic, New York Times Travel, The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, SupChina, and more.• TEDx, Yale China Association, CNN, Explorers Club, etc. speaker on topics of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental storytelling.• Secured funding for, produced, directed, hosted, and edited Journey to Net Zero, a 180 min, 6-episode docuseries highlighting US-China climate cooperation and action. Managed production and shooting team of four people.• Successfully solo pitched The North Face, Sony, and GoPro and secured grants from the US Government and private philanthropists totaling over $200K for climate and environmental photography and video projects in China and the US, ranging from a few days to a year in project duration.• TV Programming production consultant for USA Today, CNN, National Geographic, and C-Trip for climate and environment.• Freelance environmental consultant for Wolong Hetaoping Redevelopment and Ecotourism Scheme and The North Face China.

Member of the iLCP Emerging League 3 year mentorship program.

A year-long project with The North Face’s CSR and marketing team to document and sponsor 7 conservation groups across China and their forest rangers with outdoor clothing and equipment in support of their conservation objectives. The North Face athlete photographer in China.

Beijing City, China

I worked as the main photographer for all CI's project sites in China, as well as served as the foreign media collaborator with the Chongzhou City Forestry Bureau and Anzihe Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province. Also served as a CI consultant to work with the China Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Environment to design a framework of safeguard standards for Chinese industrial parks in Africa.

Beijing City, China

Wrote weekly adventure and destination pieces for WildChina publications online and became very familiar with brand and audience-specific copywriting strategies as well as narrative travel writing features.

Austin, Texas

• Helped manage political campaign by coordinating staff training, strategic planning, and led teams of 50 to achieve fundraising objectives and long-term fundraising and education goals.• Held 1,350 face-to-face conversations with strangers, 2nd highest daily fundraising average ($204) and 2nd highest total fundraising sum of 21 staff ($7,734).• Complete confidence engaging strangers and professionally discussing controversial topics; able to quickly and effectively make others see the worthiness of supporting an important cause.

Postgraduate, Chinese Language

Activities and Societies: Environmental Public Policy Research Institute, Model UN, Track and Field

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Government, Chinese, Environmental Studies

Activities and Societies: Student Government Association, Faculty Student Life Committee, Asia and the Environment Connection Program.

Chinese Foreign Policy, Chinese Modern Literature, Environmental History

Exchange Student