In her reflective solutions-based autobiography, Core Samples, Anna Farro Henderson analogs her life through her roles as a climate scientist, a politician, an artist and a mother.
Henderson was a researcher focused on past warm periods in history, and how it impacted forest and water resources. She felt a moral obligation to do more about the climate crisis, so she left her research location in the wilderness and went to D.C. to work in the U.S. Senate; at the time, she was six months pregnant with her second child.
In Core Samples, Farro Henderson details what it means to be a scientist in politics, how to embrace art, and how to navigate motherhood. "The hope is that I'm bringing people into these spaces of politics, bringing them into these spaces of science, and making it relatable and fun by writing about the very human experience of the places," she says.
Henderson will be visiting the northland this weekend in Grand Marais and Two Harbors, as well as at Zenith Bookstore in Duluth for Small Business Saturday, and Ely in February. You can find Core Samples at any independent bookstore or online at the University of Minnesota Press.
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