Rebecca Solnit: We Make the Future in the Present

Rebecca Solnit will argue that the future we need is one we have to create ourselves.

About the Speaker

Writer and historian Rebecca Solnit has written more than 25 books on walking, western history, catastrophe, feminism, and hope. A Guggenheim fellow and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, she is the author of Men Explain Things to Me and A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. She writes regularly for Harper’s and The Guardian.

Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Chair

The Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Chair was established at the UH Foundation by the late Dr. Dai Ho Chun. Rebecca Solnit is the fall 2025 Dai Ho Chun chair in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters.

Lead Event Sponsor

College of Arts, Languages & Letters at UH Mānoa

The Better Tomorrow Speaker Series is a joint venture of Hawai‘i Community Foundation, the Learning Coalition, and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, with support from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) and the William S. Richardson School of Law.

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