Sarah Jaquette Ray
Professor of Environmental Studies
Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray works at the intersection of social justice and climate emotions. An environmental humanist with a BA in Religious Studies, an MA in American Studies, and a PhD in Environmental Sciences, Studies and Policy, Dr. Ray draws on an eclectic range of disciplines and epistemologies in service of climate justice. She is the author of two books, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture (Arizona, 2013), on the logic and affects of social control in environmental thought, and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet (California, 2020), an existential toolkit for the climate generation. Dr. Ray is co-hosting a conference in April 2023 on Climate, Justice, and the Politics of Emotion at UC Riverside, co-leads an international network working to develop "An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators," and offers a professional development workshop to help center emotions in climate work, called the Climate Wisdom Lab. Dr. Ray has published on emotions and climate justice in the LA Times, Scientific American, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Edge Effects, KCET, and Zocalo Public Square. She is also a certified mindfulness teacher through the UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center.