Kathryn Pharr
Kathryn Pharr is the leader of a global community of women who focus on issues related to water. Kathryn believes that water is a source for female empowerment. She founded the Community of Women in Water as a global network which now counts more than 1000 members. Their focus is empowering women who work professionally in WASH (i.e., water, sanitation and hygiene). The Community of Women in Water want women to be leaders in WASH on the local to global levels.
Suzette Bousema
Suzette Bousema is an emerging Netherlands-based visual artist. Suzette collaborates with environmental scientists to explore present day ecological crises and engages audiences by using a variety of techniques including photography and glass blowing to help understand abstract concepts. On the podcast we discuss her efforts to photograph ancient polar ice cores , to create her own climate archive with glass bubbles, and how to personally cope with big ecological issues.
Tracy Metz
Tracy Metz is a journalist, author and podcast maker. She also is the director of the John Adams Institute, an independent foundation in the Netherlands, that brings the best and the brightest of American thinking to the Netherlands. Tracy is passionate about the interplay between urban issues, architecture, and the natural environment, particularly water. Her book Sweet&Salt: Water and the Dutch, investigates the change in the country’s approach to water management in times of climate change. Her podcast Water Talks addresses global issues with water – too much, too little, too dirty and too unequal. Water Talks grew out of the United Nations conference on water held in NYC in March 2023.