Please join Capita for a conversation with Lyndsey Gilpin, about how the responses to COVID-19 and public health emergencies are inextricably linked to our geography, our natural resources, and our environmental conditions. We will also ask her about the importance of food security during a pandemic, the challenges facing rural healthcare, and what social distancing means for the long-term flourishing of children in rural America.

Lyndsey Gilpin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Southerly. Born and raised in Kentucky but now based in Durham, North Carolina, she is a reporter and editor who has covered climate change, energy, environmental justice all over the U.S. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Vice, The Daily Beast, CityLab, Undark, High Country News, FiveThirtyEight, The Washington Post, Hakai, The Atlantic, Grist, Outside, and InsideClimate News. She earned her master’s degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.