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THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM
SPEAKER: KERRI ARSENAULT
Kerri Arsenault is the American Democracy Fellow in the Charles Warren Center, co-founder of The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University (TESS), a book critic, contributing editor at Orion magazine, and the author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, a nonfiction book about family and environmental legacies. Mill Town won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her writing has also appeared in publications such as Freeman’s, the Boston Globe, The Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. For 2023, Arsenault will also be a fellow at the Science History Institute and at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Germany, where she will work on two biography projects. Arsenault’s primary interest orbits around the lives of ordinary people and their intersection with waste, pollutants, and toxicities.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther is an author, climate activist, and native New Yorker. An expert in climate communication and fossil-fuel disinformation, she is the founding director of End Climate Silence and affiliate faculty at The New School, where she sits on the board of the Tishman Environment and Design Center. Dr. Guenther advises activist groups, corporations, and policymakers, and she serves as an Expert Reviewer for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Her next book, The Language of Climate Politics, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability.
About the Series
The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey, Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University and Sarah Dimick, Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University.