Jennifer Atkinson Speaks to Harvard Undergraduates About Emotional Resilience and Climate Change

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke on a panel highlighting mental health and climate change hosted by Harvard University undergraduates and UNICEF. Their 2025 conference, Mental Health Among Post-Pandemic Youth, featured speakers highlighting issues of loneliness, climate change, media and mental health, and international development and humanitarian programming in the Global South. Atkinson discussed strategies for building emotional resilience featured in her book, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators, which is a field guide for teaching climate justice and building emotional resilience in both students and educators in an age of crisis. Two other experts on the topic, Dr. Lise van Susteren and Dr. Elizabeth Allured, also spoke on the panel with Atkinson.

Harvard Undergraduate UNICEF is a student-run organization at Harvard College, is concerned with the humanitarian aid of children across the globe. Through various events and activities, they aim to support UNICEF in their goal to provide health care and immunizations, safe water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief, and more necessities to children.