Greetings! I’m Coryna Ogunseitan (she/any) and I am a PhD candidate in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco, where my research focuses on interventions to support people experiencing climate anxiety and climate grief. (If you have big climate feelings, drop me a line!)

My primary field sites are EcoDharma spaces within Western convert Buddhism, and with the international climate peer support group Sustaining All Life. The theoretical frameworks I use are psychoanalysis, particularly as it has been adapted to Global South contexts, and critical multispecies studies. I also bring to my research training as a clinical social worker in adult mental health at the Alliance Health Project, as well as training as a yoga and mindfulness teacher through the East Bay Meditation Center and Ignite Yoga Institute.

I manage my own climate anxiety by throwing myself into organizing work as Program Director of Beloved Community Circles, a nonprofit creating a network of local circles committed to leveraging their spiritual practice towards climate and racial justice efforts in their communities.

I am also a creative writer! My poetry, essays, and translations have been published in AGBOWO, bad buddhists, Electric Literature, The Offing and elsewhere. My Substack, The Timely and the Timeless, is largely about my research but also how climate feelings connect to … everything … so if that sounds intriguing to you, check that out here. My academic work has appeared in Sustainability and is forthcoming in the book collection Sensing Environmental Crises with the University of Exeter Press.