Anthropologist offers blueprint for new ways of being and relating to others in wake of disaster

Aidan Seale-Feldman knows a thing or two about what it's like to witness a disaster. She was working in Nepal in 2015 when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central region of the country, followed by a 7.3-magnitude aftershock, both of which claimed the lives of more than 9,000 people in total once the ground had ceased heaving and the dust had finally settled. The event changed her life—and her work—forever.