Eve Driver

Eve Driver is a writer based in Brooklyn and Boston.

Her first book, What We Can’t Burn (Westwood Press, 2024), is a memoir in two voices exploring her intense and formative disagreements with a Kenyan clean energy entrepreneur amid Harvard's fossil fuel divestment campaign.

She is now a Managing Editor of It's Freezing in LA, an independent magazine printing slow journalism about the complexities of the climate crisis.

Her fiction has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and her poetry has been published in Emergence Magazine and exhibited by the Center for Sustainable Stewardship and Frenchman Street Art Market.

Her essays and reporting have been published in Grist, The Tusculum Review, Quartz, Undark, Mongabay, Harvard Magazine, the Harvard Political Review and elsewhere.

Her work has been taught on syllabi at Boston College and Sarah Lawrence College, and she has been invited to speak at Harvard, Tufts, Princeton, Brown, Smith, Duke, Lewis & Clark, Tulane, Wake Forest, and the University of Nairobi.

She won the Harvard Undergraduate STS Essay Prize for her thesis on the politics of attributing extreme weather to climate change.

She has worked as a climate policy advisor at the U.S. Dept of Energy, a strategy consultant in New York, and a tutor at the Harvard Writing Center.

She serves on the Advisory Board of the Gull Island Institute, whose mission is to reinvent liberal arts education for the age of climate change.