Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | What If We Get It Right?

Name: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | What If We Get It Right?
Start: 2024-10-10T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library

Schedule

Thu Oct 10 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library | Atlanta, GA

Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future? Sometimes, the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is to imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and A Cappella Books welcome marine biologist and climate policy expert Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson to discuss her important new book, "What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures." Dr. Johnson will appear in conversation with her The All We Can Save Project cofounder, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, and VP of communications and policy at Patagonia, Corley Kenna.
This event is free and open to the public. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the venue.
About the Book
Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take—from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer—to create.
If you haven't yet been able to picture a transformed and replenished world—or to see yourself, your loved ones, and your community in it—this book is for you. If you haven't yet found your role in shaping this new world, or you're not sure how we can actually get there, this book is for you.
With grace, humor, and humanity, Johnson invites readers to ask and answer this ultimate question together: What if we get it right?
About the Author
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and Brooklyn native. She is co-founder of the non-profit think tank Urban Ocean Lab, co-founder of the climate initiative The All We Can Save Project, and co-creator of the podcast "How to Save a Planet." In 2021, she was named to the Time 100 Next list.
About the Conversation Partners
Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is a bestselling author, strategist, and teacher, working to heal the planet we call home. Time magazine featured her as one of 15 "women who will save the world.” Wilkinson leads The All We Can Save Project, a nonprofit she co-founded with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. Her books on climate include the bestselling anthology "All We Can Save" (2020, co-editor), "The Drawdown Review" (2020, editor-in-chief and lead writer), the New York Times bestseller "Drawdown" (2017, lead writer), and "Between God & Green" (2012), which The Boston Globe dubbed "a vitally important, even subversive, story." She co-hosts the top 1% podcast "A Matter of Degrees," telling stories for the climate curious with Dr. Leah Stokes.
Corley Kenna is VP of communications and policy at Patagonia, where she is responsible for the development and execution of Patagonia’s global communication strategy and the advancement of key policy issues related to the company’s business and advocacy priorities. She has over twenty years of experience working in government, politics, and the private sector.d essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take—from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer—to create.
If you haven't yet been able to picture a transformed and replenished world—or to see yourself, your loved ones, and your community in it—this book is for you. If you haven't yet found your role in shaping this new world, or you're not sure how we can actually get there, this book is for you.
With grace, humor, and humanity, Johnson invites readers to ask and answer this ultimate question together: What if we get it right?
About the Author
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and Brooklyn native. She is co-founder of the non-profit think tank Urban Ocean Lab, co-founder of the climate initiative The All We Can Save Project, and co-creator of the podcast "How to Save a Planet." In 2021, she was named to the Time 100 Next list.