Save the Rainforests
Aug 28, 2023
Dr. Kinari Webb - author of Guardians of the Trees
Save the Rainforests

She graduated from Yale University’s School of Medicine with honors and completed my residency in family medicine at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, California. I founded Health In Harmony shortly thereafter. Based on information gleaned from a year spent traveling around Indonesia, Health In Harmony’s project, ASRI, was sited in Sukadana, on the border of Gunung Palung, in 2007. The key focus of the work has always been radically listening to communities and responding to the needs they identify.

Webb’s book, Guardian of the Trees, describes her efforts to save the rainforest, was chosen as the Common Read for Wesleyan’s 2022-2023 academic year. The book’s themes of radical listening with gratitude and love were echoed through the Class of 2026’s welcoming events this week.