From 2022-2024 I worked with the Climate Imaginations Network* to produce salons, a large-scale free climate festival, and workshops in New York. The biggest single project I led was the Climate Imaginations Festival,** a 200 person event. This event was an invitation to build connections, engage with climate stories and art, and cultivate joy and strength: all critical ingredients in the journey that lies ahead. Out of this community building work, many projects blossomed***
*The Columbia Climate School funded the Columbia Climate Imaginations Network (CCIN) as one of its interdisciplinary Earth Networks.
**With huge collaborative support from Hailey Baisouney and Ben Mylius
*** CCIN was so successful that this community grew into a new organization that could bring its approach to climate and creativity to NYC at large: the Climate Imaginarium! I still work with the Climate Imaginarium.