Joanna Benn currently works for the Pew Charitable Trusts in their environment Group and is based in Washington DC in the US. Previously she worked for the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya as a writer/speechwriter. She has worked for international news networks, print outlets and non-governmental organizations in various communication capacities for the past 14 years.

In 2008, she won the Terry Lloyd Memorial Bursary with ITN news in London. She has worked on broadcast environment projects including an internet television series on endangered species, written for the BBC, NatGeo Asia, WWF and The Environmentalist, as well as run training and strategy workshops on environmental communications.