About the
Conference
Creating the Future We Choose
A New vision: Reimagining the Climate for Climate Solutions
Panel Session
Presenters
Crystal Chissell, Senior Director - Partnerships at Project Drawdown
David Anderson Hooker, Associate Professor of the Practice of Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
Barbara J. Love, Consultant, Coach, Author, lecturer, Climate Change Activist, Personal & Organizational Transformation Specialist
Asad Rehman, Executive Director, War on Want
Dana Kawaoka-Chen, Co-Director, Justice Funders
Richard Mabion, Community Organizer, Climate Activist
Building a Global and Intersectional Environmental Narrative
Panel Session
Presenters
Marina Melanidis, Founder and Partnerships Director, Youth4Nature
Isaias Hernandez, Environmental Educator and Creator, QueerBrownVegan
Kate Weiner, Creative Director, Loam
David Hernández Palmar, Filmmaker and Film Programmer, If Not Us Than Who
Matt Scott, Manager - Storytelling and Engagement, Project Drawdown
Clover Hogan, Founder and Executive Director, Force of Nature
Kynan Tegar, Filmmaker, If Not Us Than Who, Dayak Iban tribe from Sungai Utik, West Kalimantan
Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti, Founder, Green Generation Initiative
Climate Opportunities: Finding Your Path Within the Climate Movement
Panel Session
Presenters
Elizabeth Bagley, Director - Drawdown Learn at Project Drawdown
Bill Wiehl, Founder and Executive Director for Climate Voice
Jackie Francis, Founder, Global Warming Mitigation Project
Matt Scott, Manager - Storytelling and Engagement at Project Drawdown
Evan Hynes, Founder, Climate Base
Vivian Saxon, Communications Director and Founder, Global Warming Mitigation Project
Fernanda Matsuoka, Chief Operating Officer, Youth Climate Leaders
Ending Climate Silence: mainstreaming climate solutions in the media
Panel Session
Presenters
Genevieve Guenther, Founder and Director, End Climate Silence
Jeff Berardelli, Meteorologist and Climate Contributor to CBS News, New York City
Mark Hertsgaard, Executive Director, Covering Climate Now
Katharine Hayhoe, Political Science Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law, co-director of the Climate Center at Texas Tech University
Aruna Chandrasekhar, Independent Journalist and writer from India
Inspiring Private-sector Action
Panel Session
Presenters
Jamie Alexander, Director of Drawdown Labs at Project Drawdown
Scott Tew, Vice President, Sustainability & Managing Director, Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability, Trane Technologies
Anna Escuer, Lead for Carbon & Water. Global Sustainability Team, Google
Elouise Mayall, Community Working Group; UKYCC (UK Youth Climate Coalition)
Joining the Drawdown Global Collaborative
Panel Session
Presenters
Chad Frischmann, Senior Director of Research & Technology, Project Drawdown
Michelle Wyman, Executive Director of NCSE Speaking about the NCSE Drawdown USA Research Association
Shloka Nath, Head of Sustainability, Tata Trusts, Head of Policy & Advocacy, Tata Trusts, Executive Director, India Climate Collaborative
Drawdown Fellows - Ariani Wartenberg, Melanie Valencia, Abdulmutalib Yussuff, Karthik Mukkavilli, Jimena Alvarez, Ruth Metzel, Robin Pelc, Luiz Silveira
Roy Straver, Drawdown Europe Research Association and Co-Director of the Climate Cleanup Foundation
Marilyn Brown, Interim Chair, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology speaking on behalf of Drawdown Georgia
Drawdown Scholars - Christopher Contos, Gabbie Batzko, James Sanders, Dharma Santos-Santiago, and Kat (Kristen) Taylor
Launching the Drawdown Global Solutions Platform
Panel Session
Presenters
Revathi Sharma Kollegala, Colab Cooperative
David Brooks, Colab Cooperative
Sunishchal Dev, Noodle.Ai
Ethan Winn, Colab Cooperative
Alden Bevington, Product Manager, Drawdown Solutions Platform
Moderated by Chad Frischmann, Senior Director of Research and Technology, Project Drawdown
Learning How the World Can Reach Drawdown: The Evolving Work of Drawdown Learn
Panel Session
Presenters
Elizabeth Bagley, Director - Drawdown Learn at Project Drawdown
Deidra Parrish Williams, Leader, Global Corporate Social Responsibility, Trane Technologies
Nico Valencia, Senior Manager, Strategic Education Partnerships, Intuit
Liz Zavodsky, Executive Director, Drawdown Ecochallenge
Matt Scott, Manager - Storytelling and Engagement at Project Drawdown
Sean Kinghorn, Global Sustainability Leader, Intuit
Karla Readshaw, Strategic Partner Manager, Education, Intuit
Kirsten Love, Director of Market Development, Tradewater
Science is our Superpower
Keynote
Presenters
Michelle Wyman, Executive Director, National Council for Science and the Environment