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To navigate our current climate reality, we must imagine a better climate future. Join visionaries Stacey Abrams (Rewiring America) and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Urban Ocean Lab) for an in-depth conversation about imagining better futures, finding hope and motivation for continued action, and where climate solutions are already taking root. Esteemed multi-disciplinary artist Aisha Shillingford (Intelligent Mischief) will guide an interactive visioning exercise to help us collectively articulate the climate futures we want and how we can start building them now.
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Stacey Abrams
Senior Counsel
Stacey Abrams is Senior Counsel to Rewiring America. She is a political leader, small business owner, and New York Times bestselling author. She rose to national prominence in 2018 as the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, winning at the time more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history and becoming the first Black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States. She served 11 years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as her party’s leader.
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Co-Founder
URBAN OCEAN LAB
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and Brooklyn native. She is co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities. She co-edited the bestselling climate anthology All We Can Save, co-founded The All We Can Save Project, and co-created the Spotify/Gimlet climate solutions podcast How to Save a Planet.
Her writing has been published widely, including in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Scientific American. Dr. Johnson’s forthcoming book has the working title What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
Aisha Shillingford
Anti-Disciplinary Artist
Aisha Shillingford is an anti-disciplinary artist, world builder, futurist, designer and cultural strategist originally from Trinidad & Tobago. She is an artist in residence at Laundromat Project's Creative Change Program, a mentor within the New Museum Incubator, and an inaugural Fellow at the Race Forward Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative Strategy. She has a BA in Environmental Analysis & Policy, an MSW in Social Innovation, and an MBA in Social Entrepreneurship. She has studied Graphic Design, Futures Design, Design Fictions, Design Thinking and Street Wear Design.
