Emily Polk is an award-winning writer. She is a faculty member in the Writing and Rhetoric Program at Stanford. For years, Emily worked as a human rights and environmental writer and editor, helping produce radio documentaries in Burmese refugee camps, and facilitating a human rights-based newspaper in a Liberian refugee camp. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Boston Globe, Aeon, and Emergence Magazine. She is the author of Communicating Global to Local Resiliency: A Case Study of the Transition Movement. At Mesa, she will work on her book Wild Grief, an environmental book that explores the stories of how the more-than-human world experiences and reacts to loss. You can learn more about Emily here.