Patagonia Action Works is hosting a live virtual event about the value of lending your time and professional skills. We’ll be joined by inspiring speakers who will share their experience with skilled volunteering and how they got involved with a grassroots environmental group. Feel good about doing good.
This event will have an ASL interpreter.
RSVP to join Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021
10 a.m. PDT, 1 p.m. EDT, 6 p.m. BST, 7 p.m. CEST
Duration: 70 min
Location: This is an online event.
RSVP and we will email the link to the virtual event 24 hours before it starts. You can also find the link here.
This is a free event. However, if you would like to give a $5/5€ donation to a grassroots environmental organization, it’s easy. Check out nonprofit groups on Patagonia Action Works, find one you like and hit ‘Donate’ on their profile. See all our grantees, worldwide.
June has enjoyed a 20‐year career, in which she has become one of the most recognisable faces of British television. She has interviewed and introduced some of the world’s biggest names including HRH Prince of Wales, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and George Clooney.
June was awarded an MBE in 2007 for her services to broadcasting and charity, making her one of the youngest people ever to receive an MBE. June was later awarded an OBE in the 2020 New Years’ Honours List. She is the author of three award winning books; ‘Diversify: Six Degrees of Integration’, ‘The Power of Women’ and ‘The Power of Privilege’.
Alexandra Bowman is an illustrator, designer, educator and muralist based in Oakland, California. Her work is visually bold and figurative, and often utilizes a balance of digital and analog techniques. Alexandra’s abstracted and ambiguous figures invite the viewer to see themselves in them while navigating themes such as identity, visibility, environmental justice and racial equity. She is inspired by the idea that art can be used as a tool to empower and create change. Some of her clients include The New York Times, Patagonia, NPR and Random House. She is also the art director of food and culture magazine Whetstone. You can find her on Instagram @alexbowman.
Leo Kleine is an architect and all-round creative based in Zurich, Switzerland. When away from his beloved computer he likes to explore the Alps looking for deep powder turns and alpine rock climbs. He started taking action against climate change after noticing glacier loss, rockfall, warm winters and struggling vegetation in his home country. Since 2018, he volunteers his graphic design skills for Protect Our Winters Switzerland, where he helps with lots of other tasks, too. He uses Patagonia Action Works to connect with other nonprofit groups that work to protect our planet’s climate and ecosystems. You can find him on Instagram @_leok_ and https://leokleine.com/.
Nathalie Peña is a first-generation American Afro-Latina from Washington Heights in New York City. Her first experience with environmentalism was as an intern in her alma mater’s sustainability office. That love of learning about climate justice stayed with her while she worked in public relations, prompting her to leave the PR industry and explore her other passions. Now her focus is with Power Shift Network, which aims to shift power from systemically racist institutions to young folks and young people of color working to mitigate climate change. In her free time, you’ll most likely find her roller skating, working on a freelance writing project or watching Japanese reality TV. Find her on Instagram @power_shift, @powershiftnet on Twitter.
Whitney Conner Clapper is a global marketer for environmental and social justice campaigns at Patagonia. Fueled by a desire to un-learn from our settler colonialist past and re-learn how to be more equitable and just, she works to promote global environmental campaigns from a place of curiosity and unity. Whitney also works with hundreds of small grassroots organizations and community organizers, confident in the belief that local change can inspire global action. In her free time, Whitney spends time outside on Indigenous lands and waters with her husband, son and dog. And in another life, she dreams of producing a current Free to Be You and Me album focused on today’s environmental and social justice issues. You can find Whitney on Instagram: @outlive.the.bastards or Twitter: @whitneycclapper
Raised in Vail, Colorado, Lindsey grew up in the beautiful, snowy Gore Range. When she was not snowboarding, she was hiking with her black lab or biking through the valley. As Lindsey got older, she began to see the effects of rising temperatures on her mountain community from disappearing snowpack to raging wildfires. After going to school in Washington, DC and working for The Climate Reality Project, she landed back in her home state at POW. Lindsey has helped Protect Our Winters build a grassroots volunteer program as well as run both policy and Get-Out-the-Vote campaigns.