Videos

Drawing from social science, I came up with the original idea and executive produced this 90-second film in collaboration with an incredible team . The film features ten athletes, including Paralympic gold medalist in wheelchair basketball Marni Abbott-Peter and Olympic swimmer Markus Thormeyer, sharing stories of their most challenging, improbable sports comebacks as a call to action on climate change. While highlighting the urgency of climate action—the United Nations has given us only 11 years to prevent climate catastrophe—the film gives three tangible actions everyone can take on climate change: 1.voice your climate concerns to friends and family; 2. volunteer for climate organizations; and 3.vote. It’s a simple guide for taking the first steps towards systemic climate action—voice, volunteer, vote. Learn more from the press release here.

I’m featured in this video created by the David Suzuki Foundation and Avery Holliday in partnership with the Climate Hub at UBC. As the Founder and Student Director of the Climate Hub, I describe the Hub’s commitment to climate action anchored in justice, hope, agency, joyful community, storytelling, and systemic change. We’re using those same principles to empower and inspire high school students through the Youth Climate Ambassador Project (YCAP). YCAP, a collaboration between the Hub and Be The Change Earth Alliance trains university student facilitators to help emerging high school leaders realize this collective power and was created in response to the demand for climate change narratives that focus on hope and action rather than doom and gloom. YCAP was developed in part from my research.

After being a co-author on The Dating Game, a comprehensive report on food waste produced in partnership between the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Natural Resources Defense Council, I created this quirky stop motion film to provide information about the economic, social, and environmental consequences of food waste directly to consumers.

While participating in the Environmental Justice Knowledge Exchange Workshop and Symposium at UBC in April 2019, I had the opportunity to speak to Avery Holliday about my research on how the fossil fuel industry undermines climate narratives and what the public can do in response. Out of that talk, Avery produced this funny, powerful video.