Searching For Zion: the Quest For Home In The African Diaspora

Emily Raboteau , award-winning writer, climate activist and professor of English in The City College of New York’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, is the 2020-21 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to City College by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate.
Emily is the author of “The Professor’s Daughter” and “Searching for Zion,” winner of a 2014 American Book Award in nonfiction. She has been writing about the climate crisis since the publication of the fall 2018 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Her feature essays about the intersection of climate change and environmental injustice have recently appeared in the “New York Review of Books,” “New York Magazine,” “Zora Magazine,” Greenpeace’s website and elsewhere.