January 19 – January Series of Calvin University – Kerri Arsenault – 12:30 p.m.

Kerri Arsenault

FAMILY AND ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACIES

In Partnership with: Calvin Center for Faith & Writing

Kerri Arsenault is the co-founder of The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University (TESS), contributing editor at Orion Magazine, book critic, and author. She is passionate about the lives of ordinary people and their intersection with waste, pollutants, and toxicities. And she enjoys researching and studying what happens to communities and people when long-term employment patterns change.

In her award-winning book, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, Arsenault uses narrative nonfiction to highlight how the papermill in her hometown contributed to the rise and fall of the community. Mill Town won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction. It was also The New York Times’ Editors’ Choice and top book pick for the Chicago Tribune, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Publisher’s Weekly, and many others.

Arsenault is also a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. And she serves as a mentor for the Urban Design Forum, a publication of the Architectural League of New York. She is currently working on two more projects with similar themes to her first book.

This lecture will be broadcast live at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free.

For more information on the Calvin University January Series click here.

The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin University January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.