All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Ellen Bass is a poet, author, and co-author of The Courage to Heal. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and three Pushcart Prizes. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz, California jails. She teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.

Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset is an Indigenous rights activist, spiritual teacher, and change maker. Mitchell was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian Reservation (Penawahpskek). Mitchell is the Founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the global protection of Indigenous land and water rights as well as the preservation of the Indigenous way of life. She has been actively involved with Indigenous rights and environmental justice work for more than 25 years.

Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and science writer based in New York City. She is an Associate Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia Engineering’s Department of Applied Physics and Mathematics, and she writes regularly for Scientific American in her column "Hot Planet."

Abigail Dillen is an environmental lawyer and executive at the environmental justice organization Earthjustice. Dillen has a Juris Doctor (law) degree from UC Berkeley School of Law and joined Earthjustice in 2000. She led both the clean energy and coal programs at Earthjustice.

Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent United States Poet Laureate, the first Indigenous American to hold that honor. She is also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to serve three terms. Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv.

As of the book’s publication, Thomas is the Chief Of Staff of the US Office of Domestic Climate Policy. Before working in the White House, Thomas served as political director of the climate-focused nonprofit Evergreen Action, worked on the Biden-Harris transition team, and was a climate policy advisor on the presidential campaigns of Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Rhiana Gunn-Wright is the Climate Policy Director at the Roosevelt Institute. She has worked with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as an author of the Green New Deal. Gunn-Wright studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford in 2013.

Katharine Anne Scott Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist and professor of political science at Texas Tech University, where she is director of the Climate Science Center. She is also the CEO of the consulting firm ATMOS Research and Consulting.

Atkin is the author and founder of HEATED, a weekly newsletter dedicated to original accountability reporting and analysis on the climate crisis. She is also a contributing columnist at MSNBC. Previously, she was the climate staff writer at The New Republic, and the deputy climate editor at ThinkProgress.

Favianna Rodriguez is an American artist and activist. She self-identifies as queer and Latina with Afro-Peruvian roots. Rodriguez began as a political poster designer in the 1990s in the struggle for racial justice in Oakland, California.

Kendra Pierre-Louis is a climate reporter. She currently works for Gimlet, the podcasting company. Previously she was a climate reporter with The New York Times and a staff writer for Popular Science. Kendra is also the author of the book Green Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet.

Amanda Sturgeon is an architect and champion of sustainable architecture through practices like regenerative design and biophilic design. Previously CEO of the International Living Future Institute, she joined Mott MacDonald as the Regenerative Design Lead for the Asia Pacific Region in 2020.