Center for Existential Resilience

Building new pathways across philanthropy, culture, ecology, and public life.

The Center for Existential Resilience explores how people, cultures, and institutions build coherence, courage, and adaptive capacity in response to crisis, uncertainty, and large-scale change.

Its work brings together writing, research, interviews, teaching, public reflection, and philanthropic initiatives focused on resilience, meaning, attention, ecology, and the future of human flourishing.

The Center is a home for questions that are both intimate and planetary: how we live, how we die, how we care for one another, and how we remain responsive in times of profound disruption.

Current focus areas

The Attention Interviews

A cross-domain interview series exploring attention, perception, focus, and wise action.

Attention resilience

A developing framework for restoring clarity, coherence, and agency under pressure.

Ecological resilience

Work connected to Texas water resilience, rainforest restoration, land stewardship, and living systems.

Resilience across culture and public life

Essays and conversations on literature, technology, mortality, public meaning, and human continuity.

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