Marlena Chertock is the Communications Specialist, Governance at the World Resources Institute.

Prior to joining the WRI, she worked at the Society for Science & the Public and interned with various media organizations, including Marketplace, WTOP, USA TODAY, News21, and Education Week.

She received a bachelor's degree in Journalism and a Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House notation from the University of Maryland.

Marlena has two books of poetry, Crumb-sized (Unnamed Press, 2017) and On that one-way trip to Mars (Bottlecap Press, 2016). She writes freelance articles on green technology for Electrical Contractor Magazine and often moderates or speaks on panels at literary conferences.