[Riley Demo]

Hi everyone! I am Riley (She/hers) and I am a current masters student in the department of Environmental Health and Engineering at John’s Hopkins. I am originally from Kansas so coming to Baltimore was a big change! Unfortunately, my program and field of study is often wrought with bleak climate and environmental news. During my undergrad program, I minored in English and the humanities as found writing and creating to be an outlet for my (often) disheartening scientific and environmental lectures. I’m thrilled to find a similar space here at JHU and can’t wait to get to create with you all!

[Julie Souza]

Hi all! Im Julie Souza (she/her), C+S ’23 alumni, climate storytelling is such a huge passion of mine that I’ve intentionally and unintentionally weaved it into my life. I want to continue to intentionally! bring climate storytelling into all of my climate work, so that climate action can be more accessible.

[Jamie Liu]

Hi everyone! My name is Jamie (she/they) and I write climate fiction. Storytelling and writing have always been big parts of my life, and in my day job I work as a climate resilience planner, so climate fiction is the perfect intersection for me. I’ve only really begun exploring it within the past few years, but I’m really loving everything I’m discovering! I’m also involved with climate justice organizing in New York, where I’m based. Super excited for this space 🙂

[Nate Smith]

Hi all!

I’m Nate. I’m a theatre maker, writer, and climate activist. I founded and direct the Sixth Fest, a fringe festival named after the sixth extinction that is in the process of turning into a production company for stage and screen. We have a multimedia live production starting work now and going up in May open to lots of collaborators if anyone is interested. Very looking forward to seeing what this collective does!

[Madison Kartoz]

Hi, I’m MV Kartoz, a Boston based playwright, actor, and educator. I’ve been writing eco-theater for a couple years now, ever since spending time at Tidelines Institute in Gustavus, AK, where I studied political ecology under the Nunnian Model. When I’m not doing theater, I teach gardening and other outdoor skills. I’m excited to see what this group will become!

[Grey Filastine]

Hello, I’m Grey Filastine, I release ‘electronic’ music as Filastine ( easily found on all the platforms), make videos (also on the internet, in festivals, or mapped onto buildings or ships), and live performances. Most relevant to y’all might be Arka Kinari, a 60-ton sailing ship that transforms into a floating stage to raise the alarm about climate change. I live mostly onboard the ship in Indonesian waters, Barcelona is my land base, but I also sometimes drift over to the Americas.<div>I’m here to feel a little less lonely in the tiny intersection of climate activism and the arts, and look forward to hearing what other folks are up to.
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[Zoe Farnsworth]

Hi everyone, my name is Zoe Farnsworth (they/she) and I am a trans, ashkenazi jewish dance-maker and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. I have started a “collective” called the Compostable Arts Collective, which seeks to connect a diverse range of places and people together through making body-centered art that fosters healthy, dynamic interpersonal and communal relationships. We make art that helps break down the dying, broken ideas that trap us and use these challenges and stories to lay the grounds for a fertile future. This collective and mission are exciting to me as I think climate catastrophe is going to be one of the biggest challenges facing humanity.

I invite you all to our next event on June 23rd (in-person) called Fertile Grounds! And if any of you are interested in collaborating further, please reach out to me! I am looking to start visiting NYC more (it is where I grew up) as my life becomes more stable in Philly.

Websites:

compostableartscollective.weebly.com

zoefarnsworth.weebly.com

IG: @zoecompostabledance

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[iris]

Hi! I’m Iris Zhan (they/them, 20 year old climate activist of 6 years from Maryland. I am a student at Wellesley College in the greater Boston area. I am a youth advisory board member and summer researcher at the Global Youth Storytelling and Research Lab. I am doing research on Fridays For Future Digital, which I started and led for four years, and digital organizing in the youth climate movement. I have experience organizing locally, nationally, and globally, but my focus is helping grassroots youth climate activists across the world through a number of digital means. I am passionate about building bridges and community among climate activists which I do through digital organizing. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, it’s the best way to reach me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-zhan/

[em piro]

Hello, all! My name is em (she/her). I reside on the ancestral land of the Puyallup people in the Coast Salish region, also called Tacoma in the Pacific Northwest.
I am a community organizer, artist, nonprofit administrator and intermediary, collaborator, and performance maker, with a background in environmental justice and sustainability, planning, culture and society, and social services. My training is in sociology and performance studies.
I am a Creative Climate Leader through Julie’s Bicycle and can’t help but integrate culture, creative practice, and social impact in all my endeavors.
I’m glad to be part of this community and have discovered the Imaginarium. Looking forward to getting to know you more!

[BrightFlame –]

Hi all,

I write, teach, and make magic for bright futures. I’m connected with this group in a few ways: @Ben and I began a conversation at Columbia–I’m part of the Center for Sustainable Futures at Teachers College, have solarpunk fiction out in the world, and offer solarpunk-adjacent workshops for magical and mainstream audiences. I connected with @JamieL and @SHG through Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, though was too late to have my work included in the Governors Island exhibits. I’m happy to see folx I know and new friends in this group.

I live about 70 miles west of NYC and can get to the city periodically.

See my website https://brightflame.com for lots more about me. Of particular note: my solarpunk, ecofeminist, Cli-Fi novel, The Working launched recently. @Susan interviewed me on a recent episode of Bright Green Futures podcast.