Former Strategist for Creative Communication, Agam Agenda
Carissa Pobre is a writer, multiplatform arts worker, and creative strategist who grew up in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Her creative practice is most focused on the essay as form. With almost ten years of experience in the fields of climate action and sustainability, she collaborates frequently with coalitions and collectives that educate on environmental and social issues and their narratives of power and culture—through strategic planning, communications, program design and facilitation, and relationship building. She currently co-steers the Agam Agenda, an arts and culture platform to advance arts-based strategies and storytelling that widen conversations on the climate crisis. She is taking her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) studies in Interdisciplinary Art and Regenerative Culture. She is the author of the books Formations (self-published, 2021) and Compositions (Everything’s Fine Press, 2023).