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  • Thursday, June 8, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Eastern – You are Here: Steve Curwood, Live and Online

    Executive Producer and host of NPR’s “Living on Earth” Steve Curwood will converse on June 8 with Boston Public Library President David Leonard as part of the 2023 Lowell Lecture Series You are Here: Climate Change and What’s Next. Their 60-75 minute conversation will followed by an audience Q&A from both the in-person and virtual audiences.

    Steve Curwood is the executive producer and host of “Living on Earth.” He created the first pilot of “Living on Earth” in 1990 and the show has run continuously since April 1991. “Living on Earth” is currently aired on more than 250 National Public Radio/Public Radio International affiliates and XM/Sirius Satellite Radio.

    This lecture is part of the BPL Lowell Lecture Series “You Are Here” on Climate Change and what’s next and produced by GBH Forum Network.

    This event will begin at 6pm ET in the Abbey Room at the Boston Public Library, 230 Dartmouth Street in Boston. Free. For tickets and registration, visit www.wgbh.org.

  • Thursday, May 11, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Eastern – You Are Here: Wanjiku Gatheru, Live and Online

    Environmental justice warrior, Rhodes Scholar, and founder of Black Girl Environmentalist Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru will converse with Boston Public Library President David Leonard as part of the 2023 Lowell Lecture Series You are Here: Climate Change and What’s Next. Their 60-75 minute conversation will followed by an audience Q&A from both the in-person and virtual audiences. The live event takes place at the Lowell Lecture Hall, 15 Kirkland Street in Cambridge.

    For Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru, caring about the environment started early. While farming with her mom and grandmother as a child, the conversations would often turn to saving the earth. The first-generation American of Kenyan descent became even more invested when taking an environmental science class in high school, when she learned that social justice and climate issues were deeply intertwined. Everything suddenly became personal. “It was in this call I learned that the environment had everything to do with me,” she says.

    This lecture is part of the BPL Lowell Lecture Series “You Are Here” on Climate Change and what’s next and produced by GBH Forum Network. This event will begin at 6pm ET. Free. Get tickets and virtual link HERE.