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Western Washington University alumna Megan McGinty of the North Cascades Institute and ²ÝÁñÉçÇø graduate student Aneka Singlaub will discuss the Parks Climate Challenge at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, in Communications Facility 125 on the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø campus.

The event is free, open to the public and is part of the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series. 

McGinty and Singlaub’s talk, “From a Cocktail Napkin to an Ethic: The Parks Climate Challenge,” is the third of five lectures this quarter in the ongoing Huxley Speaker Series.  The goal of the series is to bring together the environmental studies and environmental science communities along with ²ÝÁñÉçÇø and Bellingham community members to discuss matters of contemporary environmental concern in the region and the world.

McGinty and Singlaub will discuss the Parks Climate Challenge program, which they pioneered to question how to create a team of climate-change ambassadors to effectively reach diverse youth around the country, and to inspire them to undertake local climate-change service projects.  By combining methodologies from current environmental and leadership education theories, they designed and delivered a month-long, field-based experience in the North Cascades, followed by an introduction to policy in Washington D.C. and culminating in student-designed service projects in their home communities. McGinty and Singlaub will outline their project from beginning to end, highlighting their intended outcomes, challenges they encountered and the future of the program.

McGinty earned her master’s degree in Natural Science and Science Education from ²ÝÁñÉçÇø’s Huxley College of the Environment in 2004. 

Singlaub is a graduate student working to earn her master’s degree in Environmental Education from ²ÝÁñÉçÇø.  She helped pioneer the Parks Climate Challenge Program during her professional residency with the North Cascades Institute. 

For more information on this presentation please contact David Rossiter, an assistant professor of Environmental Studies within ²ÝÁñÉçÇø’s Huxley College of the Environment at (360) 650-3603 or David.Rossiter@wwu.edu.

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