Rejoice! Our Times Are Intolerable: Terry Tempest Williams and Michael Lerner

~Co-presented with The New School at Commonweal and Point Reyes Books~

Join writer, educator, conservationist, activist, and Mesa Refuge alum Terry Tempest Williams for a reading and conversation with Commonweal Co-Founder Michael Lerner. Join us in-person at Commonweal (very limited seating) or join us via webinar. Registration required, $20 suggested donation.

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Terry Tempest Williams is a writer and educator who focuses on our relationship with the natural world, both ecologically, politically, and spiritually.  She is the author of more than 20 books, including the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her most recent books include Erosion: Essays of Undoing; and The Moon Is Behind Us with Fazal Sheikh. She is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School and the 2023 recipient of the Thoreau Prize in Literature. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters and divides her time between Utah and Massachusetts with her husband, Brooke Williams. Terry is the founder of the Mesa Refuge’s Terry Tempest Williams Fellowship for Land and Justice and was one of the first Mesa Refuge residents.

New School Host Michael Lerner is the president and co-founder of Commonweal. His principal work at Commonweal is with the Cancer Help Program, CancerChoices.org, the Omega Resilience Projects, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, and The New School at Commonweal. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health in 1983 and is author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Therapies (MIT Press).