What might a different kind of power look and feel like, and can power be redistributed equitably, even beyond our own species? Conservationist, activist, and one of the nation’s most beloved and acclaimed authors, Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen
writer” who speaks eloquently for an ethical stance toward life, showing how environmental issues are social issues that become matters of justice. A scholar at the University of Utah and Dartmouth, she has been equally at home camping in the wilderness and being arrested for civil disobedience.

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a 26-year-old poet from the Marshall Islands. Here is a poem she wrote to her daughter. She presented this poem at the Opening Ceremony of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit in 2014 and received a standing ovation.

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a 26-year-old poet from the Marshall Islands. Here she is speaking at the Climate Summit.