Kailea Rose Loftenis a mother of Tahltan, Kaska, and Black American ancestry. She is coeditor for the community publisher Loam and has guided climate change policy with an emphasis on Indigenous rights, previously serving as a Climate Commissioner for the City of Petaluma, California. You can contact her through kailealoften.com. Kate Rose Weineris a writer, editor, and publisher working at the intersections of culture and climate justice. She is coeditor of Loam and director of Loam Library, a mobile library committed to bringing the power of print to the people. Weiner's work is shaped by her studies in environmental art, social practice, and community herbalism.
Praise for Compassion in Crisis: ""As we enter an era of climate shifts and more frequent, layered catastrophes, this is the book you want beside you to navigate the realities of disaster and recovery. Drawing from survivors, practitioners, and thinkers, this book offers a guide to cultivating the kind of attentiveness and care that might help us think about preparedness wholistically, from philosophical ideas about how our experiences of time shift to practical and profound advice that can move the needle towards justice in the aftermath of grief and loss. Weiner, Loften, and their contributors help us consider what it takes to move through change and the kinds of transformation that are inevitable in the wake and shadows of disasters, acknowledging that systems and institutions can and do fail us, and showing where and how communities can be created, revitalized, and mobilized to step in and step up for each other."" —Candis Callison, member of Tāłtān Nation and author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts