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