Metcalf Kicked Off 2026 Annual Public Lecture Series With Environmental Journalist and Metcalf Alum Meera Subramanian    

On Thursday, April 2, we welcomed Meera Subramanian, award-winning environmental journalist and a 2012 Metcalf alum, to URI to talk about her latest book, A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis. In collaboration with New York Times best-selling illustrator Danica Novgorodoff, Subramanian created this graphic novel that shares experiences from their lives and the lives of four youth activists who have witnessed climate change up close – from wildfires in the Pacific Northwest to floods in Bangladesh. Joining the conversation was Metcalf 2015 alum Elizabeth Rush, author of The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.

Co-sponsored by URI’s Harrington School of Communication and Media, the Department of English and Creative Writing, the Environmental Arts and Humanities program, the Environmental Education program, and the College of Arts and Sciences, with special thanks to ecoRI, the free and open-to-the-public event launched Metcalf’s 2026 Annual Public Lecture Series. Follow the link below to view a recording of the conversation.