In conversation with Dr. Terry Anne Scott and Dr. David Domke from the Institute for Common Power, Mr. Newkirk will discuss his latest book project, Children of the Flood (Random House), a chronicle of Black communities fighting for survival in the climate crisis.
Vann R. Newkirk II is a senior editor at the Atlantic and the host and co-creator of narrative podcasts including Floodlines, which received a Peabody award. Newkirk is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and was a 2020 James Beard award finalist. He was also an Institute for Common Power Selma Scholar-in-Residence.
