Lauren E. Oakes and Emily Polk

Lauren E. Oakes is the author of In Search of the Canary Tree (recently published by Basic Books), a book about finding faith in our ability to cope with the impacts of climate change. She is Conservation Scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford.

Emily Polk recently published "The Littlest Wren" in Creative Nonfiction. She teaches sustainability and climate change communication courses at Stanford University in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Prior to earning her PhD, Emily worked for nearly ten years around the world as a human rights and environment–focused writer and editor.