Jane Fonda in Conversation with Greg Dalton ’86

Join an inspiring conversation in which Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda will speak with Greg Dalton ’86 about her decades-long commitment to sustainability, climate justice, and voting rights, focused on supporting the next generation of leaders.

Her recent book, What Can I Do? The Path From Climate Despair to Action, serves as a powerful call, and this event promises to ignite our collective resolve to drive impactful change. Jane and Greg will be joined by Emma Silber '23 and Emma Galbraith ‘25, climate activists leading the local charge in the fight for climate justice.

Fonda Biography

Jane Fonda is a two-time Academy Award-winning actor, producer, author, activist, and fitness guru. Her career has spanned over 50 years, accumulating a body of film work that includes over 50 films and crucial work on behalf of political causes such as women’s rights, Native Americans, and the environment. She is a seven-time Golden Globe® winner and was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021. Fonda also recently accepted The Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

Jane Fonda has proven her ability to spark activism on climate and a host of other issues. Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s call to treat the climate crisis “like our house is on fire,” Fonda shifted her focus to combatting the climate crisis full-time. Her latest book, What Can I Do? My Path From Climate Despair To Action, details her personal journey with the movement and provides solutions for communities to combat the climate crisis. To build on this work and expand the impact to the electoral sphere, Fonda started a PAC dedicated to electing climate champions at all levels of government.

Dalton Biography

Greg Dalton founded Climate One at The Commonwealth Club in 2007 after traveling to the Russian Arctic on a global warming symposium with climate scientists and journalists. Today Climate One produces a weekly radio show broadcast on public stations in California and across the country in addition to a podcast that is heard around the world. It is the only regular talk show that engages high-level leaders from business, policy, advocacy and academic circles in a conversation about building sustainable economies, resilient communities and a healthier future.

Past guests include science icon Jane Goodall, music legend Graham Nash, former Vice President Al Gore, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, Tea Party co-founder Debbie Dooley, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Chevron CEO Dave O’Reilly, GM Chairman Dan Akerson, Ford Motor Co. Chairman Bill Ford, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, and many other leaders. Greg previously was a journalist for 12 years covering news in Beijing, Vancouver, New York and San Francisco for the Associated Press, South China Morning Post, McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and Industry Standard magazine.

Host or Publisher Occidental College