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Learning About the Growing Threat of Political Violence from the People’s March
Today, I published a piece at the Brookings Institution summarizing some of the findings from our research at the 2025 People’s March in Washington, DC, which took place the Saturday before the Inauguration of Donald Trump. The piece highlights how participants at the People’s March were very similar to those participants at the first Women’s…
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Will the Resistance Rise Again?
That’s the question that journalists have been asking me since November 5th. We are about to enter the weekend before the inauguration and young people have been causing trouble from Los Angeles to Washington, DC (while the wildfires continue to burn). This weekend, the People’s March will coordinate over 200 marches across the US on…
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Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
On January 6th, I published “Why climate activists are becoming more radicalized (and why that’s not a bad thing)” (co-authored with Hajar Yazdiha) in The Hill. The piece discusses the ways that climate activism has become increasingly confrontational over the past few years and compares these tactics and the political repression climate activists has faced…
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TED Talk on Saving Ourselves
My TED Talk on Saving Ourselves is Live! Tune in to learn why we ALL need to be apocalyptic optimists: Prepared for the climate shocks that are coming and ready to rally as activists, disruptors, and bridge-builders to save ourselves from the climate crisis. As COP29 continues to show the weaknesses of the climate regime…
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Waking Up In Trump’s America 2.0
On the day after the 2016 election, I published a reflection at HuffPost. “Waking Up In Trump’s America And Watching The Ocean Rise” looked at the climate consequences of what candidate Trump had promised. Since I’m still processing the outcome from last night (Trump was just announced as the 47th President of the US 7…
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Cultivating Resilience through Climate Corps
The last chapter of Saving Ourselves presents three recommendations for how we should focus our collective efforts to get us to the other side of the climate crisis most effectively (check it the book if you’re interested in learning more). The last recommendation is to cultivate resilience: “Because mitigation efforts have so far failed to…
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Thinking More about Protest and Repression
Last night, we got to observe textbook examples of the ways that peaceful protest (including civil disobedience) can escalate into so much more. In NYC, we saw classic case of police repression, with images of NYPD in riot gear storming the Hamilton Building on Columbia’s campus, as well as the encampment on CUNY’s campus. On…
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Highlights from the CA leg of the book tour
I’m just back from the California leg of the Saving Ourselves Book Tour, which was amazing. Highlights included talking at BookSoup on the Sunset Strip, the conversation with Isaias Hernandez at Occidental College (and the wine and conversation with friends and activists afterwards), the surprise guests to my talk at the Commonwealth Club in San…
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3 Myths about Climate Activists
I just published a piece in The Conversation that builds on the findings from Saving Ourselves to talk about 3 common myths about the climate movement and climate activism. This piece is particularly important as Earth Month gets underway and activists take to the streets, boardrooms, car shows and much more to raise awareness about…
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Highlights from the start of the Saving Ourselves Book Tour.
In the first few weeks since the book came out, I’ve had the privilege of speaking with an amazing group of people at universities and institutions, as well as with a number of climate groups that are working in the climate movement. Clockwise from top Left with: Almeta Cooper at the Library of Congress, Dharna…
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