In 2024 I published What We Can’t Burn with Westwood Press. I co-wrote it in 2020 just after graduating from college. My coauthor and I alternate chapters and tell the story of our rocky, transformative friendship in hopes of illuminating both the power and pitfalls of good-faith disagreement — in our case, about the best way to transition off fossil fuels. I got to do a 30-stop book tour including bookstores, college classrooms, and festivals across the United States and Kenya. One of these stops was the Center for Ethics at Harvard, where I am now a fellow on their ‘civil discourse’ team. In Fall 2025, the book was recommended to all Harvard freshmen as part of their opening lecture. You can read reviews of the book and tour here and here.
"Few things I've ever read have done a better job of getting at the complexity of the climate fight." —Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College
“A compelling, deeply honest look at the hard work involved in moving away from fossil fuels.” —Leah Stokes, Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
“What a ride—gritty and intricate and important.” —James Engell, Gurney Research Professor of English at Harvard University
“Smart, literate, and profoundly honest.” —Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School
Book Tour
Bookstores
Los Angeles — Vroman’s Bookstore w/ Laura Nelson
San Francisco — Green Apple Books w/ Kayla Thompson
Berkeley — Books Inc. w/ Ash Seth
Portland — Broadway Books w/ Erica Berry
Cleveland — Loganberry Books
Chapel Hill — Epilogue Books w/ Chiara Klein & Dr. Evan Hepler-Smith
Brooklyn — Unnameable Books w/ Aja Two Crows
Wellesley — Wellesley Books w/ Dr. Ana Isabel Keilson
Cambridge — Harvard COOP w/ Dr. Phil Deloria
Washington, DC — Busboys & Poets
Colleges and High Schools
Lewis & Clark — Department of Political Economy
Wake Forest — Environment and Sustainability Studies Program
Brown — Urban Environmental Lab
Smith — ENX100, Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field
Wellesley High School
Dickinson — Earth Issues Seminar
Princeton — Princeton Blue Lab w/ Gemma Sahwell
Harvard — Center for Ethics and PBHA Environmental Action Committee w/ Tom Osborn
Alliance High School — w/ Tom Osborn
Kenyatta University — w/ Tom Osborn
Mount Kenya University — w/ Tom Osborn
Winsor School — w/ Tom Osborn
UC Riverside — Latinx & Environment Seminar
Other
Virtual — w/ Bill McKibben
New York — Ambrook w/ SOL
Washington, DC — Boundary Stone
Watertown — Authors & Innovators
Nairobi — Fairmont the Norfolk w/ Tom Osborn
Nairobi — Harvard Club of Kenya w/ Tom Osborn
Narrowsburg — Deep Water Independent Book Fair
Virtual — Climate Consciousness Summit w/ Tom Osborn
