CORE SAMPLES event at Kenyon College with Anna Farro Henderson
November 18 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm ET
Anna Farro Henderson will join Kenyon College on Monday, November 18, 2024, for a reading and discussion of her new book Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood, at 4:30 p.m. ET.
This event is free and open to the public.
Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core Samples, exploring how science is done, discussed, legislated, and imagined. Grounded in her experiences as a climate scientist, an environmental policy advisor, and a constant juggler of the many roles and responsibilities of professional moms, Henderson’s eclectic, unconventional essays illuminate the messy, contradictory humanity of our scientific and political institutions.
“This is a remarkably honest book—and therefore funny, moving, and eminently worth reading. Anna Farro Henderson’s deep encounters with Big Science and Big Bureaucracy will help you understand why progress on matters of life and death can be so maddeningly slow; her encounters with herself may help you figure out how to live your own life.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
“A lively and accessible narrative about finding a balance between convictions and love.” —Kirkus Reviews
“With fierce intelligence and wild exuberance, Anna Farro Henderson throws herself headlong into the biggest challenges of our time: how to love fully, create abundantly, and stop the ruin of the precious ecosystems that sustain us. Let her gorgeous essays teach you how to bring to the table every self you’ve got (even the ones you haven’t dreamed up yet) and activate the vital energies we need to fight for the places we call home.” —Lia Purpura, author of All the Fierce Tethers