Teresita Cochran
ITP Alum Teresita Cochran was profiled in wbur 90.9, covering her work and upcoming projects.
Since she was 10 years old, Teresita Cochran has dreamt of tsunamis darkening the horizon and spilling through her bedroom window. A child of the ‘80s, news of the earth’s ozone depletion brought on Cochran’s recurrent dreams of flooding in her family home on Cape Cod. The house, which has belonged to her paternal family since the turn of the century, is in one of the regions likely to be consumed by flooding without action against climate change.
Cochran remembers feeling panic as she learned more about climate change, then termed the greenhouse effect, in school. “I remember writing about it and thinking, ‘Well, that’s really scary,’ but then not knowing what to do because I was 12,” Cochran recalls.
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