Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Kate Schapira
IBES Affiliate Faculty, Senior Lecturer in Nonfiction Writing
Research Interests
Community-directed climate resilience, Conjunction of climate, housing and land use
Biography
Kate Schapira has been listening to people about climate change for ten years, at the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth and elsewhere. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches nonfiction writing at Brown University and is involved with local efforts toward environmental justice, climate justice and peer mental health support.
The exercises in her first work of nonfiction, Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth, offer actionable steps for connecting with others, identifying and activating community abundance, matching your skills with organized climate activism, and imagining a radically more livable future in order to bring it into being.