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Original Air Date: Sunday, March 17, 2024, and Sunday, March 24, 2024.
Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Emily Raboteau, author of Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against the Apocalypse (Henry Holt, 2024). Raboteau highlights her findings on systemic structural problems in our cities and communities, her interviews with people who have been displaced as a result of environmental disaster, and suggestions for how we move forward.
Her previous books include Searching for Zion, the critically acclaimed novel, The Professor’s Daughter. A contributing editor at Orion Magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, Raboteau’s writing has recently appeared and been anthologized in the New Yorker, the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Nation, Best American Science Writing,
Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere. She is a full professor at the City College of New York (CUNY). www.emilyraboteau.net/bio