Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca is a writer, historian, activist and the author of twenty-five books on feminism, environmental and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and catastrophe. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award (for River of Shadows; two other books of hers also were nominated for the prize in other years).  Rebecca writes regularly for The Guardian, serves on the board of Oil Change International and launched the climate project Not Too Late in 2022. During her 2024 stay at Mesa Refuge, Rebecca worked on an essay about her refugee grandmother, who was institutionalized for mental illness (likely severe PTSD), and whose brothers turned their back on their family and ethnicity to succeed in Hollywood. Rebecca is the Jennifer Egan Creative Approaches to Mental Health Fellow.