Free event!

Read along with the Environmental Law Section, and join us for discussion even if you don’t finish the book!

We will be joined by author Rosanna Xia as we discuss her 2023 book, California Against the Sea: Visions for our Vanishing Coastline.

Moderator: Jessi Fierro

Rosanna Xia is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. Her journalism has inspired new laws and regulations, and her celebrated book, California Against the Sea, received the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, a gold medal from the California Book Awards, and a Great Reads from Great Places citation from the Library of Congress, among other honors. She has been praised for her investigative reporting and narrative storytelling, and her work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series.

Xia’s most recent project, the feature documentary Out of Plain Sight, is a cinematic expansion of her coverage of a toxic dumpsite in the deep ocean. The documentary is currently on the film festival circuit and will be more widely available in the coming months.