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Harriet Shugarman

Leading voice in the parent climate movement - economist, professor, founder of ClimateMama, movement builder & award-winning author
USA

About Harriet

Harriet Shugarman is one of the leading voices in the parent climate movement, the founder of ClimateMama and award-winning author of the book How to Talk to Your Kids about Climate Change: Turning Angst into Action. Harriet worked for 13 years with the International Monetary Fund including 10 as an IMF representative at the United Nations. Harriet is a mentor and leader with Climate Reality and recipient of the prestigious Climate Reality Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award. Harriet is the inaugural co-chair of the Advisory Council for Our Kids Climate, an international network of parent organisations, and is a professor of World Sustainability and Climate Change and Society. She lives in New York City.

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Stories by Harriet

  • Environment & Cities

Parenting through despair with hope for our climate future

When facing climate anxiety, caregivers need to put on their own mental health oxygen mask first

Birth of a Parent Podcast

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