Please join the Climate and Energy Policy Program (CEPP) and Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program (ENRLP) for a lunch talk with Antero Garcia “On Parenting, Decision-Making, and the Invisible Costs of the Eaton Fire.” In January, 100,000 California residents evacuated their homes due to the Eaton Fire. Thousands of structures in the Pasadena and Altadena area burned to the ground in the second most destructive wildfire in California history.  Many residents are still displaced, dealing with insurers and worrying about the health risks in their neighborhoods. Professor Garcia will discuss his recently published report on the Eaton fire’s lasting impact on caregiving and decision-making based on interviews with mothers in Pasadena and Altadena. Read more here.

Biography

Antero Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and Vice President of the National Council of Teachers of English. His research explores the possibilities of speculative imagination and healing in educational research. Prior to completing his Ph.D., Garcia was an English teacher at a public high school in South Central Los Angeles. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books about the possibilities of literacies, play, and civics in transforming schooling in America. His recent books include All Around the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology and Civics for the World to Come: Committing to Democracy in Every Classroom. Antero currently co-edits La Cuenta (lacuenta.substack.com), an online publication centering the voices and perspectives of individuals labeled undocumented in the U.S. Antero received his Ph.D. in the Urban Schooling division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.