Mothers, Mothering and Climate Change

Sarah Marie Wiebe, PhD is an Associate Professor, writer, researcher, mixed media storyteller and political ecologist based in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include Climate CARE (Community Actions and Responses to Extreme weather events), public engagement, participatory governance and environmental justice. She is the Co-Founder of the FERN collaborative (Feminist Environmental Research Network) and her most recently published book with Fernwood Press is entitled Hot Mess: Mothering through a Code Red Climate Emergency. Carolina Toscano, PhD received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington. She teaches writing instruction and literature in the English department at Saint Louis University's Madrid Campus and oversees the first-year writing program and the student writing center. Carolina studies feminist maternal theory, migration, and climate change in contemporary literature from Spain, Latin America, and the US.