Past Events

spring 2022

January 28th John Francis (Planetwalker) and Carolyn Finney in conversation - The Stewardship Network (virtual)

February 3rd See Change, “Let People Try” - panel discussion (virtual)

February 4th Dynamo Jenny Podcast

February 9th & 23rd Spitfire Strategies Workshop (virtual)

February 11th Southwest Equity Coalition, Keynote (virtual)

February 22nd Middlebury College Sophia Danenburg (1st Black woman to summit Everest), Teresa Baker (Outdoor CEO Diversity Pledge) & Carolyn Finney in conversation (virtual)  https://middlebury.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-pw5MnMURNiID_4Ml2sJBw 

February 25th PA Consulting/RISE, Keynote (virtual)

March 3rd/4th Humboldt College, Keynote (in person)

March 6th St. Louis, Public Lands Alliance - The N Word: Nature, Revisited (reading/performance) (in person)

March 16th-18th University of British Columbia, Keynote (rescheduled for Fall 2022)

March 22nd Rethink Outside, conversation with José Gonzalez (virtual)

April 2nd New Hampshire Land Trust, Saving Special Places symposium, Keynote (virtual)

April 7th University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Keynote (virtual)

April 12th University of Tennessee (virtual)

April 14th Brown University, Keynote (in person)

April 23rd Muir Symposium, University of the Pacific (in person/virtual)

April 27th Trust for Public Lands, Denver, Keynote (in person)

April 28th Art Hx Project Princeton University, Panel conversation (virtual)

May 3rd OIA The Summit, Washington, DC, Panel conversation with Jelani Cobb (in person)

May 11th VBSR Annual Conference, Keynote (in person)

May 13th Black Men Read (virtual)

May 19th Switzer, keynote (virtual)

summer 2022

June 11th - Antioch, New Hampshire (in person)

June (dates to be confirmed) - NRDC (virtual)

July 1st-7th Camp Denali, Alaska (in person)

July 16th-29th Haystack Residency, Maine (in person)

fall 2021

September 25th Society for Protection of NH Forests, Keynote (IN PERSON)

October 14th-17th California Lawyers Book Club (VIRTUAL)

October 15th & 16th Southern Foodways Alliance (IN PERSON)

October 21st & 23rd North Country Trails - Andrea (VIRTUAL)

October 22nd Kentucky Council of Churches (VIRTUAL)

October 28th SUNY Geneseo - Paul Schact Keynote (IN PERSON)

November 2nd Wildlife Society - Carol Chambers (VIRTUAL)

November 5th Forestry - panel with Jon Jarvis & Megan Ybarra (VIRTUAL)

November 11th Groton Conservation Trust Susan Hughes (VIRTUAL)

November 12th (and spring 2022) UBC

November 18th Stroud Memorial Lecture

December 2nd & 9th Spitfire Strategies - Dennis Poplin

Aspen Institute - planning sessions and December keynote

spring 2021

January 19th UN Foundation/Clean Cooking workshop (VIRTUAL)

January 20th Engineering Justice, Austin, Texas (VIRTUAL)

January 26th Partnership for National Trails System workshop (VIRTUAL)

January 27th JoyTrip Bookclub (VIRTUAL)

January 28th Conservation Education Coalition, Iowa Keynote (VIRTUAL)

January 29th Mitchell Center for African American Heritage, Delaware, 6-8pm EST (VIRTUAL)

Feb. 1st Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources Midwest Fish and Wildlife (VIRTUAL)

Feb. 5th Partnership for National Trails System workshop (VIRTUAL)

Feb. 8th NPS Mastery Class (VIRTUAL)

Feb. 13th Hudson River Museum Panel Discussion (VIRTUAL)

Feb. 16th Pocket Media and Outdoor Industry Association Panel Discussion (VIRTUAL)

Feb. 17th Chicago Wilderness Congress Keynote (VIRTUAL)

Feb. 18th UN Foundation/Clean Cooking workshop (VIRTUAL)

Feb. 22nd MUSE, University of Michigan Fireside Chat (VIRTUAL)

Feb. 23rd Vermont Studio Talk (VIRTUAL)

Feb. 25th & 26th Cornell Botanical Gardens Keynote (VIRTUAL)

March 5th Loft Literary Center Minneapolis (VIRTUAL)

March 11th Ohio State (VIRTUAL)

March 17th Midwest Fish & Wildlife Keynote (VIRTUAL)

March 18th Nature Museum Grafton, VT (VIRTUAL)

March 19th & 20th Massachusetts Audubon Keynote (VIRTUAL)

March 24th World Wildlife Fund Author Series (VIRTUAL)

March 25th Middlebury Series Out Loud: Giving Up the Goods about Green - Conversation with climber & rapper Devin Dabney

March 30th EVO Conversation on Compensation w/ Teresa Baker, José Gonzalez and Mirna Valerio (VIRTUAL)

March 31st Podcast UWisconsin-Madison Office of Sustainability

April 7th Association of Fish & Wildlife workshop (VIRTUAL)

April 6th Middlebury Series Out Loud: Giving Up the Goods about Green - Conversation with author Alice Randall (VIRTUAL

April 9th Johns Hopkins Sustainability Leadership Council Symposium (VIRTUAL)

April 10th Climate Reality Project (VIRTUAL)

April 15th Center for Ethical Global Leadership Chadwick Schools (VIRTUAL)

April 16th GUND Institute/UVM Public Talk(VIRTUAL)

April 20th Middlebury Series Out Loud: Giving Up the Goods about Green - Conversation with CEO of Sustainable Hunting Mahting Puehlis

April 22nd & 23rd Elon College Keynote & Discussion (VIRTUAL)

April 23rd Teton Science School (VIRTUAL)

April 28th University of Michigan (VIRTUAL)

April 29th Earth Justice (VIRTUAL)

April 29th Shaver Creek Book Club (VIRTUAL)

May 4th & 11th The Bridge Project (VIRTUAL)

May 6th Book Talk with Black Outside (VIRTUAL)

May 12th NJ Conservation (VIRTUAL)

May 16th Georgia Audubon Atlanta Keynote (VIRTUAL)

June 7th Mind and Life Institute (VIRTUAL)

June 8th Fort Worth Botanical Gardens

June 9th The Watershed Institute (Virtual)

June 24th NW Land Conference (Virtual) 

July 14th & 22nd - A reading/workshop of my one-woman performance piece The N Word: Nature, Revisited (an imagined conversation with John Muir). Part of my Mellon New York Botanical Gardens Humanities Institute residency (In Person)

August 22nd Monadock Summer Lyceum

August 26th Alumni College, Middlebury/Breadloaf - 7pm (in person)

AND

Pacifica College EcoPsychology Program - May 18th and June 15th

Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program, University of Washington, June & August

Middlebury College residency Feb-May 2021

summer & fall 2020

April 28th, JUne 2nd & 30th Eco Psychology 11:Environmental & Earth Justice, Pacifica College, Carpinteria, CA (VIRTUAL)

June 10th & 11th NPS Fort Scott Kansas workshop (VIRTUAL)

June 10th Conversation on the Moment with Hoka One One (taped & forthcoming)

June 25th Faculty at Home Series, Middlebury College (VIRTUAL)

July 1st Headlands Residency, COVID Key Words Series, Panel - San Francisco (VIRTUAL)

July 3rd Science Friday (radio show now online)

July 3rd Good Together podcast (taped & forthcoming)

July 8th & 9th Continental Divide Trail Coalition workshop, New Mexico (VIRTUAL)

July 9th - This Land film screening & panel (5pm PT/8pm ET) (VIRTUAL)

July 10th HBCU Interns Speaker Series Greening Youth, Atlanta, GA (VIRTUAL)

July 11th Orange County Museum of Art, Contested Spaces: Roundtable Discussion, Santa Ana, CA (VIRTUAL)

July 17th Origins Outside workshop (VIRTUAL)

July 24th HBCU Interns Speaker Series, Greening Youth, Atlanta, GA (VIRTUAL)

July 27th NAACB keynote & Plenary (VIRTUAL)

July 31st HBCU Interns Speaker Series, Greening Youth, Atlanta, GA (VIRTUAL)

August 3rd Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program Seattle (VIRTUAL)

August 4th The Exchange at New Hampshire Public Radio, 9am-10am EST (VIRTUAL)

August 5th Latino Heritage NPS (VIRTUAL)

August 7th YMCA New Hampshire (In person, outside setting)

August 13th Conference for Landscape Architecture Indiana ASLA, keynote (VIRTUAL)

August 18th Ursa Major Speaking engagement/workshop (VIRTUAL)

September 11th New York Botanical Gardens webinar, 11am-12:15pm EST (VIRTUAL)

September 25th Faith Communities Together for a Sustainable Future - 4pm-5pm (VIRTUAL)

October 8th SPURs “Ideas & Action” for Public Space - 3:30 EST (VIRTUAL)

October 15th University of Georgia’s Signature Speaker Series - 3pm-4:30pm (VIRTUAL)

October 21st Roanoke Rivers Symposium - 1:30pm EST (VIRTUAL)

October 23rd SACNAS - Live Q & A, 7pm-8pm EST (VIRTUAL)

October 28th Chicago Wilderness Congress (time to be determined) (VIRTUAL)

October 29th Point Reyes National Seashore Association - 7pm-8pm EST (VIRTUAL)

November 4th & 5th Cornell Botanical Gardens, The Learning Farm and Ithaca Children’s Garden (time to be determined) (VIRTUAL)

November 10th University of Vermont/GUND Institute - 1pm-4pm EST (VIRTUAL)

November 12th Louisville Sustainability Conference (time to be determined) (VIRTUAL)

November 14th Kentucky Sierra Club (time to be determined) (VIRTUAL)

November 17th UC Davis (VIRTUAL)

November 18th California State University, North Ridge (VIRTUAL)

November 19th Penn State (VIRTUAL)

December 3rd Denver Museum of Science (VIRTUAL)

spring 2020

Jan 23: Vermont Natural Resources Council, Burlington, VT

Jan. 28th Camber Outdoors, Cooperative Round Table, Outdoor Retailer Show - Denver, CO 

Jan. 30th  Loyola Marymount University, Keynote - Los Angeles, CA 

Feb. 9th-12th  Earlham College, Keynote & Workshop - Richmond, IN 

Feb. 13th Middlebury College, Environmental Studies Colloquium Series - Middlebury, VT   

Feb. 20th Earth Justice, WOC Retreat -  Albuquerque, NM 

Feb 25th & Feb. 26th University of Michigan, Racism Lab – Ann Arbor, MI 

Feb. 29th Association for Experiential Education Southeast Annual Conference, Keynote -  Hendersonville, NC

March 7th Citizens’ Climate Lobby - Troy, NY

March 20th New Jersey Land Conservation Rally - Somerset, NJ

March 24th-25th University of Georgia - Athens, GA

April 2nd Chicago Wilderness Congress, Keynote - Chicago, IL

April 15th- 17th UC Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies Manley Lecture – Santa Barbara, CA

April 23rd Oberlin College,  Earth Day 50 Keynote - Oberlin, OH (VIRTUAL)

May 8th - Global Education (VIRTUAL)

June 11th Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference - Ripton, VT (CANCELLED)

July 16th-19th Sisters of Earth Conference A Cosmology of Belonging, Speaker & Facilitator (with Vandana Shiva & Kaylynn TwoTrees) - Ferguson, MO (CANCELLED)