Brian Tokar is an activist and author, a Lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, and a board member of the Institute for Social Ecology and 350Vermont. His most recent book is Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change (New Compass Press, 2014). He is currently co-editing a new international collection on grassroots climate responses, titled Climate Justice and Community Renewal, which will be published by Routledge in the spring of 2020.