Irit Kleiman
Irit Kleiman is an associate professor of romance studies at Boston University. She teaches courses on the literatures and cultures of medieval and Renaissance France in a global context and is a faculty member of the BU Core Curriculum in the Humanities. Her interdisciplinary research seeks to understand the relationship between writing, culture, and law in […]
Bobbie D Norman
Bobbie D Norman is a research associate at Data+Soul Research, a Boston-based research and evaluation firm. In this role, her work includes climate-related movement building and transportation advocacy network mapping, spanning between both public health and environmentally focused projects. Growing up, Bobbie D noticed that she had a different relationship with “the environment” than her white classmates, feeling discomfort and […]
Meera Subramanian
Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home, both personal and planetary, in a time of climate crisis. Her work has appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, The NewYorker.com, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. She is author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, (PublicAffairs 2015), which was short-listed […]
Rev. Mariama White-Hammond
Reverend Mariama White-Hammond is the founding and current pastor of New Roots AME Church, a multi-racial and multi-class community in Dorchester. She is also a scuba diver and an advocate for ecological & social justice, youth engagement, and spirit-filled organizing. Rev. Mariama also served as the Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space for the City […]
Brooke Williams
Brooke Williams is an associate professor of the practice of computational journalism at Boston University College of Communication and an investigative reporter specializing in data journalism. Her work has contributed to a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, as well as a George Polk Award and a Gerald Loeb Award, among others. In the classroom, Brooke emphasizes […]