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What If We Get it Right?: Climate Change, Politics, and the Election
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What If We Get It Right? is a provocative and joyous collection of clear-eyed essays, 20 vibrant interviews, data, poetry, and art that map an inspiring landscape of solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Given this political moment, what's most urgent right now is getting it right on climate politics. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson plans to use the book publication as the moment for engaging and encouraging people to #VoteClimate in partnership with Environmental Voter Project (a nonpartisan get out the vote effort targeting environmentalists) and Lead Locally (supporting down ballot climate candidates). Attendees will also be encouraged to find an entry point, or motivation to expand their roles in climate action, via a climate action Venn diagram. After a short introduction of the book, Ayana will be joined by Nathaniel Stinnett (founder and executive director of Environmental Voter Project), and Whit Jones (campaign director of Lead Locally) for a conversation about engaging climate-motivated voters, the electoral power of that demographic, the climate stakes of the election, and the social science of what motivates people to cast their ballots.
** The event in Kresge Auditorium will be preceeded by a reception at 6:00 PM in the Kresge Lobby with What if We Get it Right? books on sale by Back Cove Books, and the author on hand to sign copies! Open to the public free of charge.* Please note that this event will also be livestreamed (there is a 5-minute delay on the livestream).
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Speakers
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Roux Distinguished Scholar
Bowdoin College
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayanaelizabeth/
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and teacher working to help create the best possible climate future. She co-founded and leads Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities, and is the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin College. Ayana authored the forthcoming book What If We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, co-edited the bestselling anthology All We Can Save, co-created and co-hosted the Spotify/Gimlet podcast How to Save a Planet, and co-authored the Blue New Deal, a roadmap for including the ocean in climate policy. She earned a BA in environmental science and public policy from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She serves on the board of directors for Patagonia and GreenWave, and on the advisory board of Environmental Voter Project. Above all: Ayana is in love with climate solutions.
Nathaniel Stinnett
Founder and Executive Director
Environmental Voter Project
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanielstinnett/
Nathaniel Stinnett founded the Environmental Voter Project in 2015 after over a decade of experience as a senior advisor, consultant, and trainer for political campaigns and issue-advocacy nonprofits. Hailed as a "visionary" by The New York Times, and dubbed "The Voting Guru" by Grist magazine, Stinnett is a frequent expert speaker on cutting-edge campaign techniques and the behavioral science behind getting people to vote. He has held a variety of senior leadership and campaign manager positions on U.S. Senate, Congressional, state, and mayoral campaigns, and he sits on the Board of Advisors for MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative. Formerly an attorney at the international law firm DLA Piper LLP, Stinnett holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. He lives in Boston, MA with his wife and two children.
Whit Jones
Campaign Director
Lead Locally
https://www.linkedin.com/in/whit-jones-447b1934/
Whit Jones is an organizer and communicator on climate, energy and environmental justice issues and has spent the last ten years building a youth movement powerful enough to challenge the fossil fuel industry. As Campaign Director at Energy Action Coalition, Whit worked with a coalition of 20 partners to lead both national and grassroots campaigns to drive more ambitious action on climate change, and coordinated the biannual Power Shift summits. Power Shift 2011 hosted the largest grassroots organizing training in history, and through aggressive campaigning won a meeting between President Obama and 11 grassroots environmental justice leaders. Whit has written for The Huffington Post, MSNBC and led the strategic communications work to hold President Obama accountable to young voters on his climate, energy and environmental commitments.
Hosted By
Matthew Klingle
Co-hosted with: Career Exploration and Development, McKeen Center for the Common Good, Sunrise Bowdoin , Bowdoin Sustainability Office, History, Physics and Astronomy, Earth & Oceanographic Science , Biology, Economics, Bowdoin Carbon Fee and Dividend Movement , Arctic Studies, Schiller Coastal Studies Center
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