Author Talk: Emily Raboteau
Join us for a book talk with Emily Raboteau, the Bronx based award-winning author of Lessons for Survival, the inaugural book of the RNH Book Club. Lessons for Survival is a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, and environmental justice from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without coming undone in an era of turbulent intersecting crises.
Emily Raboteau writes at the intersection of social and environmental justice, race, climate change, public art, and parenthood. Her books are Lessons for Survival, shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, Searching for Zion, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the critically acclaimed novel, The Professor’s Daughter. Since the release of the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, she has focused on writing longform essays about the climate crisis. A contributing editor at Orion Magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, Raboteau’s distinctions include the Climate Narratives Prize, the Deadline Club Award in Feature Reporting, and grants and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and Yaddo. She serves as nonfiction faculty at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference and is a full professor in the Black Studies Department at the City College of New York (CUNY). She lives with her family in the Bronx.
Thursday May 29th 6:30 PM
Questions? Contact Lidia Torres, ltorres@riverdaleonline.org or call 718-549-8100 ext. 115.
