Career
After serving as its editor for 14 years, Motavalli became a senior writer for East–The Environmental Magazine, a bi-monthly publication which aims to bring attention to environmental problems. Motavalli has authored four books – Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery, Forward Drive: The Race to Build "Clean Cars" for the Future, and Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change – and edited three others He previously served as a professor of journalism at Fairfield University and the University of Connecticut.
The latter is his alma mater.
He lives in Connecticut.
