BJ(Hons) (Vind), MFA (Vind)
Jenn Thornhill Verma, BJ(Hons)’02, MFA’19 (creative nonfiction), is president of the Alumni Association at the University of King’s College. Jenn is an award-winning investigative journalist and author covering the ocean, fisheries, biodiversity and climate change.
As Canada’s first Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network fellow, her reporting for the Globe and Mail led the team to gold in Environmental and Climate Change reporting at the 2025 Canadian Association of Journalists awards for the Unsettled series, examining how Labrador Inuit are adapting to climate change. She is also the co-recipient of gold awards for Best Column (Digital Publishing Awards, 2024), Business reporting (Atlantic Journalism Awards, 2024) and Best Cover (AJAs, 2020, the cover featured Jenn’s landscape painting).
Verma’s other notable projects include The Globe’s Entangled series, investigating Canada-U.S. cross-border protections for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale; and her extensive coverage of the collapse of Canada’s east coast cod fishery, which featured in her nonfiction book, Cod Collapse, and the animated short film, “Last Fish, First Boat.”
A fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and a Canadian Fellow of The Explorers Club, Jenn is also an alumna of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a visual artist and filmmaker, and spent 15 years as a nonprofit executive leader. A repeat King’s grad, Jenn also received an MSc (medicine) in 2007 from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), and now lives in Ottawa with her family.