Coryna Ogunseitan

Coryna Ogunseitan (she/any) is a PhD candidate in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco, where her ethnographic research focuses on spiritual and clinical interventions to support people experiencing climate anxiety and climate grief. She helps teach the UC-wide Climate Resilience course at UCSF, and also serves 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. Coryna brings to her research and nonprofit work training as a clinical social worker in adult mental health at UC Berkeley and the Alliance Health Project, as well as training as a yoga and mindfulness teacher through the East Bay Meditation Center and Ignite Yoga Institute. Coryna is also a creative writer whose poetry, essays, and translations have been published in AGBOWO, bad buddhists, Electric Literature, The Offing and elsewhere. Her Substack, The Timely and the Timeless, explores how climate emotions in relation to a wide range of current and historical events. Her academic work has appeared in Sustainability and is forthcoming in the book collection Sensing Environmental Crises with the University of Exeter Press.