Climate Is Every Story: Forced Migration and Changing Communities

Описание: Forced Migration and Changing Communities
February 11, 2026 | 12:00pm-1:30pm

Ted Hesson
Ted Hesson (‘02) is an immigration reporter for Reuters, based in Washington, D.C. His workfocuses on the policy and politics of immigration, asylum and border security. Prior to joining Reuters in 2019, Ted worked for the news outlet POLITICO, where he also covered immigration. His articles have appeared in POLITICO Magazine, The Atlantic and VICE News, among other publications. Ted holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and bachelor's degree from Boston College.

Meera Subramanian
Meera Subramanian is a freelance journalist whose features about the environment have appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Inside Climate News, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. A National Geographic Explorer, she is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, and author of the graphic novel A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis (forthcoming from First Second 2026) and the narrative nonfiction book, A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis (PublicAffairs 2015), which was short-listed for the2016 Orion Book Award.

María Piñeros-Leaño
Dr. María Fernanda Piñeros-Leaño is an Associate Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work and a Faculty Affiliate at both the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society and the Institute of Early Childhood Policy. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Work, Master of Public Health, Master of Social Work, and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Piñeros-Leaño is the founding director of the MACONDO Research Lab, where she leadsinterdisciplinary, community-engaged research focused on improving mental health outcomes for immigrant and immigrant families in the U.S. and Latin America. Her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Hilton Foundation, among others. She has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications and multiple book chapters on topics including perinatal mental health, cultural adaptations of evidence-based mental health interventions, and crisis migration.

Maryanne Loughry
Dr Maryanne Loughry is an Australian Sister of Mercy, a psychologist and senior advisor for Jesuit Refugee Service, in the Office of Global Engagement, at Boston College. For a number of years Maryanne has taught Global Practice in the School of Social Work and next academic year will be teaching in International Studies offering a course on Climate Induced Displacement.