As director of storytelling and engagement, Matt Scott leads Project Drawdown’s climate solutions storytelling and community engagement efforts, helping everyday people connect more deeply with climate solutions. He is the founding director of Drawdown Stories, where he helps shape the organization’s storytelling and engagement strategy while working to pass the mic to people and communities who often go unheard in the climate space. He is also the host of Drawdown’s Neighborhood, a climate solutions docuseries highlighting local climate heroes across the United States.
Before joining Project Drawdown, Matt led global community engagement for NASA’s Space Apps Challenge at the innovation agency SecondMuse, helping grow the world’s largest problem-solving hackathon and what has been described as one of the U.S. government’s largest citizen diplomacy initiatives. In that role at SecondMuse, he engaged more than 100,000 people across 150+ countries alongside NASA, while also collaborating with organizations including the United Nations, USAID, Nike, Walmart, the Australian Government, Pivotal Ventures, and the Obama White House. Across his broader digital storytelling career, his work has reached more than half a billion people through stories and campaigns focused on climate, civic innovation, ocean health, the circular economy, sustainable food, digital well-being, internet access, and corporate sustainability.
Matt’s work has been featured by The Weather Channel, National Geographic, Grist, PBS, FEMA, NOAA, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Hollywood Climate Summit, and more. Matt also serves as vice chair of Planet Forward’s Advisory Council and is an alumnus of The George Washington University, where he studied business administration and marketing. He is also on the board of People for Better Food. He is the founder of Let’s Care, through which he has interviewed and learned from more than 100 underrepresented and unlikely change makers since 2017. Through Let’s Care, Matt created the film 20s & Change: San Francisco, which was recognized at three film festivals worldwide.