Rising Waters: Stories from America’s Frontline
Channel: MetcalfInstitute
Date: 14/05/2020

Rising seas are transforming coastline communities and disrupting lives in irrevocable ways. How are these communities and policy-makers dealing with these impacts and what can they teach us about the challenges to come? This webinar features an online conversation with Pulitzer Prize finalist, author, and journalist Elizabeth Rush about her book, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Metcalf Institute presented this program in partnership with Rhode Island Center for the Book, which has selected Rising for the 2020 Reading Across Rhode Island program for schools. Partial support for this program was provided by URI’s Coastal Institute. The webinar began with a screening of David Welch’s short documentary, Home or High Water, based on Rush’s stories, participants will meet the author in a live interview with Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, PBS public editor. For more information, visit metcalfinstitute.org/elizabethrush-screening.