In-person

Ferris Jabr

Wed Nov 13, 2024 12:10 p.m.—1:00 p.m.
Ferris Jabr

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Location

Sterling Law Building, Room 128
127 Wall St
New Haven, CT 06511

Lunch will be provided at the event.

About the Speaker

Ferris Jabr is the author of the forthcoming book Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life (Random House, 6/2024) and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Scientific American. He has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, National Geographic, Wired, Outside, Lapham’s Quarterly, McSweeney’s, and The Los Angeles Review
of Books, among other publications.

He is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant, as well as fellowships from UC Berkeley and the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program. His work has been anthologized in several editions of The Best American Science and Nature Writing series.

He has an MA in journalism from New York University and a Bachelor of Science from Tufts University. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner, Ryan, their dog, Jack, and more plants than they can count. His surname rhymes with neighbor.

Co-sponsored by The Law Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School, Yale Animal Law Society, the Yale Environmental Law Association, and the Yale Journalism Initiative.