Eileen Flanagan, author of COMMON GROUND- an in-person Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with award-winning author of The Wisdom to Know the Difference, Eileen Flanagan. Flanagan will be visiting with her new book about climate change, Common Ground.

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A Quaker activist, facilitator, and teacher, Flanagan takes us on a personal journey through her environmental direct-action experiences as well as her relationships with community leaders to understand how we can form coalitions to actually make a difference. In Common Ground, Flanagan argues that more than technology or even elections, acting in solidarity with all life is humanity’s best hope for survival.

“With a capacious heart, an unerring moral compass, and consummate evidence-based research, Eileen Flanagan shows that, together, we have the power to rescue the planet from a path of greed and self-destruction, and, in the process, come to know ourselves and each other. Flanagan has given us both a history of and a blueprint for our mutual liberation.” —Sarah Willie-LeBreton, President of Smith College

Eileen Flanagan brings a forty-year commitment to justice to her speaking, writing, and climate leadership. She earned a BA from Duke and an MA from Yale as a first-generation college student, focusing on resistance to colonialism, which she taught on the college level. The Dalai Lama endorsed her award-winning book The Wisdom to Know the Difference, and some of the best-known climate activists in the world endorsed her memoir Renewable.