Kathleen Dean Moore Ph.D.

Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher, activist, and award-winning nature writer who for many years was a professor of environmental ethics at Oregon State University. Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Audubon, Conservation Biology, Discover, High Country News, Orion, and The New York Times Magazine, among many others. She is the author and co-editor of numerous books about nature and climate ethics, including Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers (Oregon State University Press, 2022), Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case against Fracking and Climate Change (Oregon State University Press, 2021), Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World (Counterpoint, 2021), Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change (Counterpoint, 2016), and Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (Trinity University Press, 2011), which was co-edited by Michael Nelson and featured a foreword by Desmond Tutu.