Robinwood Center, a New Hampshire Seacoast social justice and climate justice nonprofit, will host a storytelling event centered around climate change on May 22 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EST at the Saltonstall Farm in Stratham, NH. 

Emma Shapiro-Weiss and Dorn Cox will share their personal experiences battling climate change in the Maine and New Hampshire Seacoast region. The storytelling event will be followed by a facilitated discussion.

Shapiro-Weiss got started in advocacy by volunteering for 350 New Hampshire’s offshore wind campaign. She went on to work on several campaigns and environmental groups including Solarize Monadnock, Peterborough Energy Committee, League of Conservation Voters, and is a recent New Leaders Council graduate. Shapiro-Weiss graduated with a degree in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic. 

Following school, she spent her free time volunteering for environmental organizations while working as a video editor for small businesses. After the 2016 election, Shapiro-Weiss made the decision to become a community organizer because she could not imagine putting her efforts anywhere else. What started with a personal testimony at a city hall meeting grew to participation in the biggest non-violent direct action in New Hampshire since the 70s two years later. When she’s not working, Shapiro-Weiss enjoys kickboxing, listening to podcasts and exploring the New Hampshire wilderness. Shapiro-Weiss is currently the Co-Executive Director of 350 New Hampshire.

Cox serves as research director for Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management (OpenTEAM). He is also a project lead at Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, a pioneer and leader in regenerative agriculture, a nonprofit research and education center, and a working 600 acre organic dairy diversified farm on the coast of Maine. 

Cox, his wife and two sons also manage his family's certified organic farm in New Hampshire. As a co-founder of the FarmOS software platform, the Gathering for Open Ag Tech (GOAT) and Farm Hack community, he is passionate about sharing open source agricultural tools, ideas, information and inspiration to accelerate innovation and quantify environmental services from regenerative agriculture. In 2018 his work as a NACD Soil Health Champion was recognized with the inaugural Hugh Hammond Bennett award and in 2019 Cox was awarded the Food Shot Global Ground Breaker prize.

Cox earned a PhD from the University of New Hampshire in Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science.

This project is funded, in part, by NOAA's Office for Coastal Management under the Coastal Zone Management Act in conjunction with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Coastal Program.

The event will be open to the public. Entry is free, and audience members can register to attend at https://www.robinwoodcenter.org/upcoming-events.html.