Bernadette Woods Placky is an Emmy Award winning meteorologist and director of Climate Central's Climate Matters program that offers data analyses, graphics and other reporting resources to nearly 2,000 local TV meteorologists and journalists to help them tell their local climate stories. Woods Placky develops partnerships with media organizations, non-profits, and academic institutions in her leadership role with Climate Central, and serves as an expert on the links between climate change and weather. Before coming to Climate Central, Woods Placky worked for decade as an on-air meteorologist in markets in Arkansas, Kentucky and Maryland.