Our Trees, Our Stories: Shaping a Transformative Future for Forests

The event will feature an intimate dialog with National Geographic Explorer at Large, Nalini Nadkarni. Nalini will discuss her work as a pioneer of scientific tree canopy research and her efforts to inspire awareness for trees in diverse societal sectors, including corporations, faith-based groups, artists, and people who are incarcerated.

Join to explore how forests, like people, react and recover from disturbance and envision the new future we need to chart to ensure healthy forests into the future, while also redefine our relationship with forests.

Event Highlights

• Fireside chat with Nalini Nadkarni, National Geographic Explorer at Large to discuss the Our Trees Initiative – a campaign and living archive that elevates stories of the ecological, cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual connections to trees, and Sacha Spector, Program Director for the Environment at Doris Duke Foundation, to discuss a new emerging consensus in the forest community
• Insights from the 9^th American Forest Congress to inspire action, create space for new partnerships and build towards a transformative forest paradigm
• Personal “Tree Stories” from diverse voices spanning science, culture, and community to explore how collective narratives can help us move to a new paradigm, fostering resilience and recovery for the U.S. and global forests.