Not Mars: Tools to Save Our Home Planet is a one-night, multi-speaker event, bringing together Patagonia’s activist heroes to share lessons learned, practical tips and personal stories to turn your climate anxiety into climate action. Hosted by journalist Yessenia Funes, this special event will inspire seasoned and newly curious activists with inspiring conversations from a diverse group of speakers, including community organizer Nikkita Oliver, author Bonnie Tsui, climate activist Jamie Henn and surfer and ocean advocate Greg Long among others. You’ll also have the opportunity to connect directly with local grassroots groups that can provide a clear pathway to help protect local waters and build healthier communities.
All proceeds will benefit our non-profit partners Wild Orca, Save our Wild Salmon and Washington Conservation Action.
Tickets are required for each attendee. Please click the TICKETS button at the top of this page to sign up. Tickets will be sent via email as a PDF. Please present digital or printed copy of PDF for entry.
All sales are non-refundable. If the event is canceled, all purchases will be refunded in full.
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This event is in English.
Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and the author of American Chinatown, winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her latest book, Why We Swim, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Time magazine and NPR best book of the year; it is currently being translated into 10 languages.
Jamie Henn is the founder and director of Fossil Free Media, a nonprofit media lab that supports the movement to end fossil fuels and leads campaigns against industry propaganda. He was also a co-founder of 350.org and led the global organization’s communications work for over a decade, including the fight against Keystone XL, the People’s Climate Marches, fossil fuel divestment and more.
Yessenia Funes is an independent journalist who has covered the climate and environmental justice movement for outlets such as The Guardian, National Geographic, Vogue and more. She publishes her own creative climate newsletter Possibilities and also serves as editor-at-large for Atmos, a climate and culture magazine.
Nikkita Oliver is a community organizer, abolitionist, educator and attorney. They are the executive director of Creative Justice, an arts-based healing engaged space for youth and young adults, a movement lawyer at the Lavender Rights Project, an adjunct professor at Seattle University and a steering committee member with the I-135 Seattle Social Housing initiative (House Our Neighbors).
Greg Long is recognized as one of the most influential big wave riders in the world, combining his absolute passion for surfing with a dedication to the study of waves and storms. But despite multiple world titles, he sees his greatest achievement as being able to teach and inspire others to live as responsible stewards of the planet.
Joseph Bogaard is the executive director of Save Our wild Salmon Coalition (SOS). Before joining SOS, he spent nearly a decade teaching and working in the forests and mountains of the American West. He is a former commissioner of Water District 19 (King County) and currently serves as a board member with the NW Energy Coalition and Braided River.
Amy Bowers Cordalis is a mother, fisherwoman, attorney, member of the Yurok
Tribe and the co-principal of the Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group, a
nonprofit representing Indigenous tribes, organizations, and people in the protection of natural and cultural resources. She previously served her Tribe as General Counsel and was a staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund. Amy’s work focuses on Klamath River restoration, including dam removal, water rights and fisheries issues.