Julia Baum is a researcher here in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, doing some truly amazing work. She’s not afraid of public speaking, as she’s a biology professor at UVic and does lots of talks to the scientific community.
But this was different – she wanted to talk to regular people about climate change at “Nerd Nite“, a global monthly event featuring scientific talks in a nighttime bar-like atmosphere.
She wanted us to care. I helped her to to see that her usual stats and pictures of globes wouldn’t cut it. She stepped out of her informational overdelivering comfort zone and into the world of storytelling. Magic happened and her ideas will live on inside of us.