Core
Projects


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Recent
Projects


Science & Society
event series with Pioneer Works
(curator and host)
2018-present

How to Save a Planet
Gimlet/Spotify podcast
(co-creator and co-host)
2020-2021

Climate Futurism
art exhibition @ Pioneer Works (curator)
2023

Nike – Talking Trash
(advisor, speaker, writer)
2021

Blue New Deal Plan
(policy advisor, Warren campaign)
2019

Past
Projects


NYU seminar course on Urban Ocean Conservation (adjunct professor), 2016-2019

Community building for #WomenLeadClimate (convener and facilitator), 2019

Global strategy for TBA21-Academy on ocean art and policy (project lead), 2018-2019

Grants program for Bezos Family Foundation’s Ocean Challenge (project lead), 2018-2019

World Ocean Week at The Explorer's Club (curator, moderator), 2018 & 2019

Lonely Whale's Tik Tok campaign (researcher, writer, advisor), 2018

TED Ed animated explainers on overfishing and aquaculture (writer, producer), 2017 & 2019

Analysis of waste in the seafood supply chain for WWF (project lead), 2018

March for Science (leadership team, co-director of partnerships), 2017

XPRIZE Big Ocean Button Challenge (competition designer), 2017

Waitt Institute’s Blue Halo Initiative (executive director, initiative co-founder), 2013-2016

U.S. National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan (NOAA executive secretary, drafter), 2011

Fish traps with escape gaps to reduce fishing bycatch (inventor, researcher), 2008

Fish, Fishing, Diving, and the Management of Coral Reefs (Ph.D. dissertation), 2005-2011