Rebecca L. Young serves as a content manager for the nonprofit education organization Cognia and as an advisor for the International Baccalaureate’s Middle Years Programme in Language and Literature eAssessment. Her first book, Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward, and her current research explores how transdisciplinary instruction and assessment can prepare young people for the challenges of a changing world. Her most recent publications, Literature as a Lens for Climate Change: Using Narratives to Prepare the Next Generation and Climate Change Education: Reimaging the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling, offer collections of chapters focused on the ways storytelling can engage K-12 students as ecologically conscious, globally-minded problem solvers in the climate crisis.