Community Conversations: Amplifying Social Movements with May Boeve
At Bioneers we have an amazing community – discerning, engaged, committed and reflective. These Community Conversations are an opportunity for us to come together around key topics to talk about what has real meaning and value to us. Stimulated by a brief ‘keynote’, or “conversation starter”, and captured by a creative ’synthesis’ from talented young spoken word artists, these community conversations offer a place to bring your best thinking forward in creative and innovative ways. Join us, and weave your heart, mind, and voice into the collective braid!
The current moment has shown us that large-scale change is not only necessary, it’s possible. Policies that were previously fringe are now front and center in national and international conversations. People continue to take to the streets to demand racial justice, climate justice, and human rights. What’s going well with the social movements you care most about? And how might we get more of what’s going well during this time when the opportunity for ‘weaving the world anew’ is so great? With: May Boeve, Executive Director of 350.org; Tim Merry, spoken word maestro/poet extraordinaire; Amy Lenzo, weDialogue and the World Cafe Community Foundation; and David Shaw, Santa Cruz Permaculture & UCSC Right Livelihood College.
December 5th | 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm
Panelists
May Boeve
Executive Director
350.org
May Boeve is the San Francisco Bay Area-based Executive Director of 350.org, the renowned, highly effective and influential international climate change campaign whose creative communications, organizing, and mass mobilizations strive to generate the sense of urgency required to tackle the climate crisis. Previously, May co-founded and helped lead the Step It Up 2007 campaign, and prior to that was active in the campus climate movement while a student at Middlebury College. May is the co-author of Fight Global Warming Now.
Tim Merry
Spoken Word Improviser/Poet
Tim Merry works with major international businesses, government agencies, local communities and regional collaboratives to lead breakthrough change through coaching, training, keynote speaking, engagement facilitation and systems change designed to energize and shake up the status quo. As an engagement specialist and systems change strategist, Tim organizes for forward movement. He is also a widely renowned spoken word improviser/poet.
Amy Lenzo
World Cafes
Amy Lenzo, who pioneered the World Cafe online process and has hosted hundreds of online World Cafes with people from all over the world since then, has been hosting conscious online engagement for over a decade and has been a cutting-edge leader in creating distinctly human interactive online spaces that help us connect with ourselves, each other and the natural world.
David Shaw
Founder
Santa Cruz Permaculture
David Shaw, a whole systems designer, facilitator, educator, and musician, founded Santa Cruz Permaculture and the UCSC Right Livelihood College, a partnership with the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” He supports communities locally and globally to transform their shared future through strategic dialogue and collective action.
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