While some debate the existence of climate change and others attempt to point fingers, Drexel professors like Mimi Sheller, PhD, know that the search for solutions starts with listening. Sheller traveled to the Caribbean in the spring of 2013 to interview a group of Haitians and Dominicans displaced by rising lake waters along the two countries’ borders. Teachers, priests, farmers and fishermen—many of whom depend on the land for their livelihood—have been forced to relocate and search for new ways to make a living. Sheller and Niacka Carty, a humanities fellow and international area studies major, will return to the Caribbean this fall to present their findings to government officials, civil societies and other local groups. Understanding the cause of the rising waters will hopefully lead the government to a lasting solution. Whether this means building levees and channels to stave off rising waters or clearing new land for relocation, it isn’t yet clear; what is certain, says Sheller, is the willingness of all parties—domestic and foreign—to work together to find the answer.