Coral Davenport
Coral Davenport
Coral Misaki Davenport covers energy and climate change policy at the New York Times . She has covered environmental issues since 2006.
She previously covered energy and the environment for National Journal , Politico , and Congressional Quarterly.
Early Life & Education
Coral Davenport graduated from Smith College with a degree in English literature.
Career
Coral Davenport Davenport started her career at theDaily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Massachusetts.
From 2001 to 2004, she worked in Athens, Greece as a correspondent for numerous publications, covered the 2004 Summer Olympics, and contributed travel writing and restaurant reviews to Condé Nast Traveler and the Fodor's, Time Out, and theEyewitness Books series.
In 2010, Davenport was a fellow with the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting.
New York Times
Coral Davenport interviews Barack Obama on climate change
Coral Davenport's coverage at the New York Times has included reporting from atop the Greenland ice sheet about abrupt climate change, breaking the news of Volkswagen's emissions scandal and their illegal use of software devices to evade pollution regulations, and an interview with Barack Obama from 2016 about his environmental policies.
Personal Life
On May 26, 2017, Coral Davenport married her husband, David Butler Higgins; he is an intelligence analyst at the U.S. Department of Energy. They met in 2005 at a party in Washington, D.C. David Higgins had just moved out of the house and Coral was about to move into it. He eventually helped her move in, carrying her boxes and assembling her furniture.