Bringing the humanities into climate education Senior Tsemone Ogbemi is sharing the important role of the arts in comprehending climate through her work at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and in an environmental conference she is presenting at this week. Senior Tsemone Ogbemi, an English major, has been working with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities on projects that highlight the importance of stories and art in grappling with the climate crisis. (Image: Courtesy of Tsemone Ogbemi)
A year ago, Penn senior Tsemone Ogbemi had what she describes as a “pretty average” way of thinking about climate change.
“In my personal life I try to recycle, reduce the waste I produce, eat a mostly plant-based diet, and things like that,” she says. “As an English major I’d always felt my contribution to anything related to climate would be minor.”