Zeenat Rahman

Executive Director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, where she leads operations and strategy for civic-leadership and public-service programming. Her prior public-service work includes senior roles at the U.S. State Department and USAID, as well as leading the Aspen Institute’s Inclusive America Project.

Climate Action Needs a Moral Language Beyond Partisan Identity

Rainn Wilson argues that climate action needs more than science, policy and consumer-level guilt: it needs messages that reach the politically disengaged “movable middle” and a moral language rooted in care for people and the natural world. In conversation with Zeenat Rahman, he contends that treating places, relationships and ecosystems as sacred can give people with different politics or beliefs a shared basis for protecting them.

The Aspen InstituteAug 4, 20268 min read