Agam the Climate Podcast

A moon child, a motorbike racer, and South African feminist writer and scholar, Malebo Sephodi is an award-winning writer. Malebo’s debut non-fiction book, Miss Behave (published by BlackBird Books, 2017), won her the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author (2018).…

How does science writer and journalist Natasha Vizcarra handle data and jargon when writing for a popular audience? How do we meaningfully communicate the science behind climate change towards action? Plus, how is science writing comparable to fiction or even poetry?  In…

We speak with Sigrid Gayangos, a writer born and raised in Zamboanga. In 2020, Sigrid’s short story, “Galansiyang”, was one of 10 finalists in the Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, which received a total of 580 submissions from 77 countries. The story,…

In this episode, we speak with writer, naturalist, educator, and activist Yuvan Aves, based in Chennai, India. After moving out of conventional schooling at the age of 16, Yuvan pursued his self-education and cultivated a deep relationship with nature throughout life. We…

In this conversation, we hear stories from Dr. Swetha Ram, a pediatrician and poet from northern Kerala, in India. Her poem “Dear Son” is featured in Agam’s forthcoming anthology of climate literature (out later in 2021). Swetha was working in a rural…

Dr. Joti Tabula is a medical doctor and poet, hailing from San Antonio, Zambales in the Philippines. In this conversation, we talk to him about how he weaves together his medical and literary practices, how he deals with “sideline guilt” and the…

Luisa Igloria’s poetry spans more than 10 books and over decades of work. Her poems travel back and forth across the distance between Baguio City, in the Philippines where she grew up, and Virginia, United States where she now lives. She is…

Xiaojun Wang is a writer, environmental activist, founder of the nonprofit People of Asia for Climate Solutions, and contributor to the forthcoming Agam literary anthology. Born and raised in Shanxi Province, the birthplace of China’s civilization and currently the largest coal producer…

María Faciolince is a photographer, anthropologist, and the Global Voices Producer at Power Shifts Project for Oxfam. Two of her photographs are in the forthcoming Agam anthology of climate literature. She was born in Curacao and grew up in Colombia, and in…

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, a poet and educator, is climate envoy for the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Thematic Ambassador for Culture for the Climate Vulnerable Forum. Listen as she talks about her contribution to the forthcoming Agam anthology, her diplomatic work,…