Devi Lockwood presents 1,001 Voices on Climate Change

Join us for a talk with journalist Devi Lockwood, about her travels that resulted in the book, 1,001 Voices on Climate Change: Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World. She will be interviewed by Cheryl Elinsky, a Physician’s Assistant at DHMC.

Over five years, covering twenty countries across six continents – often by bicycle –  journalist Devi Lockwood collected personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities.

She discovered that ordinary people sharing their stories does far more to advance understanding and empathy than the most alarming statistics and studies. This book is a hopeful global listening tour for climate change, channeling the urgency of those who have already glimpsed the future to help us avoid the worst.

Traveling from Denmark and Sweden to China, Turkey, the Canadian Arctic, and the Peruvian Amazon, Lockwood hears from indigenous elders and youth in Fiji and Tuvalu about drought and disappearing coastlines, attends the UN climate conference in Morocco, and bikes the length of New Zealand and Australia, interviewing the people she meets about retreating glaciers, contaminated rivers, and wildfires. 

          “A great storyteller needs first to be a great listener, and with each pedal of her bike—up and down previously unknown paths—Devi Lockwood hears from those living through climate change and related water woes literally on the front lines. Her skills at storytelling are matched by her mastery of listening. The results are riveting.” —Bud Ward, Editor, Yale Climate Connections

Devi Lockwood has written about science, climate change, and technology for The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, and The Washington Post, among others. Her trip to document 1,001 stories on water and climate change was funded in part by the Gardner & Shaw postgraduate traveling fellowships from Harvard and a National Geographic Early Career Grant. Lockwood graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude from Harvard, where she studied folklore and mythology and earned a language citation in Arabic. In 2019, she completed an MS in science writing at MIT. She is an editor for Rest of World and splits her time between New York and Vermont. 

Cheryl Elinsky has worked at DHMC for the past 16 years. She practices as a Physician Assistant in Internal Medicine, is the Director of Continuing Professional Development and Education for Advanced Practice Providers and is an Instructor at the Geisel School of Medicine. She lives in Hartland, VT with her wife, Story Smith. She enjoys cooking, gardening, biking and swimming and has a new hobby of building bee hotels.

The Yankee Bookshop has copies of 1,001 Voices on Climate Change available and they will generously donate 20% of sales to NWPL!

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