MYCO: Metamorphosis Panels

MYCO: Metamorphosis reflects an evolution of our present local movement to one that is intergenerational, cooperative, and encompassing of an ever-evolving city, community, and ongoing climate crisis. We represent the resilience of mycelial networks, embodying NYC's environmental justice movement through art, advocacy, green economy workforce development, and entrepreneurship.

This one-day experience champions intersectional explorations of the climate and environmental justice movement at the nexus of policy, economic development, and the green job economy, as well as racial, gender, migrant, and queer liberation.

As we platform community voices and sustainability leaders tirelessly championing true liberation, join us for:

• Thought-provoking panels of climate justice storytelling, green job economy, and public, private, and grassroots organizing cooperation
• Intentional networking sessions
• Climate and restorative justice art-making workshops

• Rest, restoration, and respite through meditation, conversation, and play

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  Panel 1

  3:30p-4:15 MULES AND MONSTERAS: RADICALLY SALVAGING IN THE CLIMATE SPACE, A Black Girl Environmentalist Climate Storytelling Panel

  • Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men solidified her as an anthropologist and ethnographer. But she is an environmentalist, being the pioneer of “salvage ethnography”. In literary and narrative fashion, this panel opens up dialogue on creative storytelling and preserving climate and cultural histories.
    • Panelists
      • Joe Brewster, Founder, Rada Studio
      • Whitney McGuire, Founder of Polibot and The McGuire Group, Former Head of Sustainability, The Guggenheim
      • Elsa Ponce, Founder of Studio Elsa Ponce + Open Architecture Collaborative New York

    • Moderated by: Emma Abercrombie-Peters, Sustainability Analyst at Tapestry, Coach (Coachtopia), Black Girl Environmentalist Co-Lead

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