About the Show

Climate with Kiana is a podcast exploring climate solutions through a framework of joy and justice. This show explores just and sustainable solutions through conversations with experts and leaders in climate, energy, and sustainability. The show covers key environmental topics within energy justice, clean energy, and sustainable development. Connect to climate solutions and reflect with passionate people who are working on just, innovative, sustainable, and joyful solutions.

The show aims to inspire, educate, spark conversations, and action among friends and colleagues. The episodes seek to uplift the stories and knowledge of seasoned and emerging environmental leaders. Through thoughtful climate justice storytelling, Climate with Kiana hopes to bring people together in shared curiosity and celebration of climate, energy, and sustainability solutions.

Joy and climate optimism are critical tools for environmental work. A radical joy framework counters systemic oppression and constellates care, connection, and change. Operating from a place of joy allows us greater access to sustained energy and ease. Collectively shared joy is a powerful and magnetic tool for transformation. Through sharing stories and advocating for the earth and communities, let us be connected in shared joy.

A justice framework recognizes the intersectional nature of all social justice movements and the earth. This framework recognizes the right to accessible, sustainable, and equitable environmental practices, governance, and outcomes for all people and communities. In order to have a Just Transition to more sustainable energy & economic systems, we must reconcile and remedy the deep social inequalities in our world’s past and present. In the nexus of human communities and the earth, every environmental issue is a justice issue. 

This podcast is recorded and produced in New York City, on unceded Munsee Lenape land. 

About Kiana

Creator, Host, Producer

Kiana Michaan is a solar strategist, clean energy advocate, and climate storyteller. She works as a freelance sustainability & energy consultant with expertise in solar deployment, environmental education, and climate storytelling. Kiana has worked providing permitting, utility interconnection, and project management for hundreds of solar projects across New York City. She is an alum of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute Fellowship, OnePointFive Academy, and holds a certificate in Clean Energy from NYU. She was selected as a 2024 VERGE Emerging Leader and a 2026 CHARGE Rising Star in Energy Branding. Kiana has served as a member of the advisory panel for the non-profit Diversity in Sustainability and as a board member for Eco.Logic, a non-profit dedicated to environmental art & education. She has worked with organizations including Green Leadership Trust, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Black Girl Environmentalist, Our Climate Voices, Solar One, NYSEIA and Climate Film Festival. Kiana is passionate about advancing clean energy, equitable climate action, and environmental storytelling.