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Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) will feature a discussion between MCF president & CEO Dr. Carmen Rojas, authors Thelma Young Lutunatabua and Rebecca Solnit, and executive director of Florida Rising Andrea Mercado.
This event is part of our MCF Book Club: Reading for a Liberated Future series. The MCF Book Club shares the ideas of leaders who encourage us to imagine how we can radically transform our democracy, economy, and society.
Not Too Late is a book and a project that invites newcomers to the climate movement, and provides climate facts and encouragement for people who are already engaged but weary. The authors believe that the truths about climate science, the justice-centered solutions, and the growing strength of the climate movement and its achievements can help. The project offers good news, perspectives, voices, and connections to people, as well as good paths forward for the climate and those who care about it.
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Dr. Carmen Rojas is the president and CEO of Marguerite Casey Foundation. Under her leadership, the foundation launched the prestigious Freedom Scholar award, and since starting in 2020 granted more than $165M in funding to dozens of organizations doing the hard work of shifting power to those people who have long been excluded from having it. Prior to MCF, Dr. Rojas was the cofounder and CEO of the Workers Lab, an innovation lab that partners with workers to develop new ideas that help them succeed and flourish.
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Thelma Young Lutunatabua is a digital storyteller and activist. She is the co-founder of Not Too Late, and currently works at the Solutions Project. Before that, she worked in various roles supporting the global climate movement, as well as other human rights endeavors around the world. She calls Fiji and Texas home.
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Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty-five books on feminism, environmental and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, and hope and catastrophe. In addition to Not Too Late, her other books include Orwell’s Roses;Men Explain Things to Me; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she writes regularly for the Guardian and serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International and the advisory boards of Third Act and Dayenu.
