Y’all, it’s been a busy year. Since I’ve been terrible about keeping my website up to date lately, I thought I’d share some updates with you—the reasons I’ve been missing in action over here!
Most significantly, at the beginning of the year, I started a new role as a Senior Policy Analyst with Moms Clean Air Force. We call it “Moms” for short, and it’s an incredible organization that mobilizes parents and caregivers in the U.S. to act on climate change and air pollution. It has been an extraordinary honor and privilege to join the Moms team; if you’re not already on the Moms Clean Air Force email list, you should be! You can follow my work with Moms here.
This has also been a year full of rich, generative conversations with fellow parents who are navigating what it means to parent in a time of climate change and other converging crises. Some of these conversations have ended up in print or podcasts! Here are a few of my favorites:
In January, climate journalist Emma Pattee featured Parenting in a Changing Climate in an article for WIRED on Where Parents Can Get Help With Climate Anxiety.
In March, I got to be on the wonderful Reseed podcast with the lovely Alice Irene Whittaker, talking about what it means to remake parenthood for these times:
In June, pediatric oncology nurse David Metzger featured Parenting in a Changing Climate on his funny, poignant Nurse Papa podcast, which accompanies his wonderful Nurse Papa book:
In August, I was featured on the Hope. Act. Thrive. podcast with the delightful Be The Future duo Sally Giblin and Helen Hill, discussing parenting in a changing climate, making climate action a habit, and practicing hope:
And I also got to speak with Readers Digest about climate anxiety with journalist Stephanie Osmanski.
This month, trauma psychotherapist and citizen ecologist Tessa Anttila interviewed me for her beautiful podcast Love Letters to Planet Earth, in a conversation about how to navigate the emotional terrain of parenting in these times of climate change:
Another significant part of this year has been working towards finishing up my master’s degree in public health, and a few weeks ago, I turned in a thesis project on climate change and parents’ mental health. I’m really looking forward to sharing more of that research as soon as I’m able to (but for now, while I await my final grade, it’s still under wraps—wish me luck!).
Next week marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of Parenting in a Changing Climate, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t say how much I have enjoyed interacting with readers over the past 12 months—many thanks to each and every person who has reached out to tell me what the book has meant to them, shared it on social media, or recommended it to a friend. You all are the reason I wrote the book and your support has meant the world to me.
While I’m not doing much coaching at the moment, I do hope that in 2023 I’ll be able to offer more group spaces for parents to navigate the emotional terrain of parenting in a changing climate together—and if you’re reading this, perhaps we’ll cross paths in one of those spaces. Here’s hoping that whatever this year has held for you so far, you’re closing out the last season of 2022 with support from people you love.