This week we began our Spring fundraising campaign! In the coming weeks we will feature recently published books from Mesa Refuge authors and changemakers. This spring we must raise $75,000 so that we can host 100 writers and activists at Mesa Refuge this year. We provide them with the unique gifts of protected time, sanctuary, and community so that they can share the transformative stories, ideas, and knowledge the world needs to hear.
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Featured books:
Truth Demands
A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice By Abby Reyes
Unrig the Game
What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning By Vanessa Priya Daniel
On Muscle
The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters by Bonnie Tsui
A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis by Jeanne Carstensen
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We were so lucky to have Nwamaka Agbo, Laura Bliss, and Zara Chowdhary during our fourth session of the year. Thank you for sharing your important work on timely issues!
Nwamaka is CEO of Kataly Foundation and Managing Director of Restorative Economies Fund. With a background in community organizing, policy and advocacy work on racial, social, and environmental justice, she is committed to projects that build self-determined communities. She provided guidance to community-owned and governed wealth building initiatives like Black Land & Power and to Restore Oakland, where she serves on the board.. At Mesa, she worked on her book Restorative Economics: How We Transform the World and Ourselves at the Same Time. Nwamaka is the Howard and Phyllis Friedman Fellow for an Inclusive Economy.
Laura is a writer and journalist based in San Francisco. On staff at Bloomberg Businessweek, she writes about cities and the environment and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for her contributions to Bloomberg's investigative series about global water profiteering. She was the host of “Bedrock, USA,” a podcast about political extremism in local government, and the creator of The Quarantine Atlas, a collection of maps and essays about Covid-19's reshaping of global urban life. At Mesa, she worked on a project about communities that have rebuilt in the wake of catastrophic fire.
Zara is a writer and educator. Her debut memoir The Lucky Ones was released to critical acclaim. She has taught courses in Hindi and on South Asian cultures, protest poetry, and creative nonfiction. Zara worked in film and media. Her work aired on National Geographic India and Turner Classic Movies. Her prose has appeared in New Moons, Flyway Journal, and Cotton Xenomorph. At Mesa, she worked on a novel that draws the hypocritical outlines of India's growing "philanthropic billionaire" class in a moody, environmental thriller that places a big, fat Indian wedding in a place of grave ecological collapse.
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