Grace is back with a new show tackling the greatest challenge of our time: climate change. Each week, As She Rises connects the power of poetry with the work of local activists to create an intimate portrait of climate change.

This episode of As She Rises visits the land currently known as Louisiana. Poet Jerika Marchan reads from her collection “SWOLE,” recounts living through Hurricane Katrina, and tells us why she'll stay in Louisiana as long as it will let her. Colette Pichon Battle, founder and executive director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, advocates for structural shifts towards ecological equity and climate justice in communities of color on the frontline of climate change. Follow and subscribe to As She Rises wherever you're listening right now.