Jennifer Atkinson’s podcast featured in Arts & Climate Change

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's podcast was featured in Arts & Climate Change, an organization that supports "deeply-engaged, throughout-provoking and artistically-savvy responses to climate change." In 2020, Atkinson launched a podcast called Facing It to share research on the emotional and psychological toll of climate change. Yet the series also explores how eco grief and anxiety can lead to climate action. In each episode of Facing It, Atkinson explores a different way we can harness despair to activate meaningful solutions.

Earlier this year, Arts & Climate Change began a six-part series to feature key episodes of Facing It. As the organization explains in its mission statement, climate solutions cannot be left to scientists and policy makers alone: "Today, interesting artistic work about climate change is popping up all over the world, in all kinds of venues. It shows up in opera houses and hip hop poetry slams, in established galleries and on-the-fly exhibitions, in off-Broadway houses and regional theatres. Our goal is to curate and elevate that work, providing an archive of climate-related arts interventions, and a resource for those interested in the subject. We deeply believe that what artists have to say about climate change will shape our values and behavior across the years to come."