From large-scale issues like the climate crisis and social injustice to technological advancements and evolving phases of life, we get handed a lot of reasons to change. What things help or hinder us in making positive changes in our lives? What are the effects of our choices and our ability to change on our local communities and our society as a whole? How can we encourage others to implement change, remove barriers, and spur action? Whether you want to change the world or simply effect change in your own life, we’ll talk about the experience of change, how to get there in our own lives, and how to bring others with us.

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Ruby McConnell is a writer, geologist, environmental activist, and explorer whose work centers on outdoor advocacy, place, and examining the relationships between the landscape and the human experience. Her work has appeared in scientific journals and outlets including HuffPost, Mother Earth News, Oregon Humanities, Grain Literary Magazine, and LitHub, and was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in 2016. She is the author of the critically acclaimed outdoor engagement series A Woman’s Guide to the Wild, A Girl’s Guide to the Wild, and My Nature Journal and Activity Book, and Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life, a collection of environmental essays which was a finalist for the 2020 Oregon Book Awards and was listed as one of Ms. Magazine’s Best Feminist Books of the Year. Look for her new book, Wilderness and the American Spirit in the spring of 2024. You can almost always find her in the woods.