Joe Solomon - Speaker, Trainer, Writer. 

I am a climate justice activist, clown-in-training, writer, storyteller, speaker at environmental social change events, and storytelling and social media trainer. Please contact me for articles, trainings and speaking opportunities - I would love to hear from you! I can be reached via phone at 415 683 6185 and over email at write@engagejoe.com. 

 
Photos, left to right, me and my sweetie Catherine Moore (selfie), speaking with 7,000 young climate leaders at Power Shift October 2013 (photo by Robert van Waarden), and training with Johanna de Graffenreid and Dinah Dewald at Brown as part of the 'Divestment Roadshow' in Feb 2013. 

Recent Publications:

• The Most Amazing Online Organizing Guide (co-edited with Megan Kelley)
• "Online Community Building: How to Wire a Network to Support Your Nonprofit's Mission", in Nonprofit Management 101 (co-authored with Jon Warnow) 
• Contributing Photographer: "Clown Through Mask" by Veronica Coburn and Sue Morrison

2014: Interviews with Meme Slingers and Social Media-Based Storytellers:  

• Waging NonViolence: Interview with Sandra Khalifa - How bold design is helping birth the new civil rights movement
• WearePowerShift: An interview with Woodworker and Top Canadian Meme Slinger, Jodi Stark
• Huffington Post: Interview With Wired Appalachian Advocate, Dana Kuhnline
• Mobilisation Lab: Interview with Rachel Dearborn - Upwell’s Campaign Lab Director listens, networks and advances Team Ocean
• WearePowerShift: Interview with Jessica Lee - Social Media as a Medium to Make the Marginalized Heard
• WearePowerShift: Meme Slinger Interview with Brandon Hill - "Social Media Allows us to Begin the Story." 
• WearePowerShift: Interview with Nick Katkevich - "Breaking Outside of the Social Media Box"
• WearePowerShift: A social media interview with Ethan Nuss     
  
• WearePowerShift: An Interview with Power Shift Designer, Dylan Petrohilos
• WearePowerShift: Designing and Storytelling for Change - An Interview with Lindsay Hughes 

Recent Blog Posts & Articles, 2013-14:

• Featured in Mobilisation Lab: "Climate activists call for justice in Ferguson" 
• Facebook: 50+ Stories from the People's Climate March 
• Common Dreams: Dear Young People: We Need You to Lead After the Peoples Climate March 
• YES! Magazine:  These Young People Are Pioneering Appalachia's Post-Coal Economy
• Medium.com: How I Learned To Let Go Of Being A Righteous Outside Organizer In West Virginia
• WearePowerShift: How to Run Your Own Amazing "Storytellers Team" (co-authored with ‎Mary Schellentrager) 
• Huffington Post: Big Hopes for the Student Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement in 2014
• NetSquared: How to Make Sweet Social Change Memes in 10 Steps - Using Pixelmator 
• WearePowerShift: A New Storytelling Experiment - Join us on #PowerShiftJourneys
• Featured in YesMagazine: "#FearlessSummer: How the Battle to Stop Climate Change Got Ferocious" & "Why the Smartphone Became the Lightsaber of the Environmental Justice Movement"
• Huffington Post: In Defense of a #FearlessSummer

Articles and Blog Posts, 2011-'12

• Burlington Free Press: I Believe: It's time we connect the dots, Green Mountain style 
• Repair the World: Interview
• Huffington Post: Reflecting on 2011 -- The Year Online Organizers Got Real
• Video Interviews: The rebirth of the environmental movement, Cleaning up after tropical storm Irene, Can we get out of this mess? - Filmed in Sitka, Alaska
  

Recent Presentations:

• Slideshow: What can the Hunger Games teach us about using social media for change?
• Video: Social Media Training for 350.org.  
• Slideshow: What can online organizers learn from Star Wars?
• Adopt a Negotiator - Video "Twebinar" Presentation
• Vancouver, BC - Building a Networked Movement & Tales from the Field

Check out the EngageJoe Blog-o-graphy! (a somewhat organized way to browse my '08-11 blog posts)

Recent Job History:

• July '14 — Present, Writer
• Jan 2013 — Present, Co-Founder, GreenMemes.org
• July 2013 — Present: Energy Action Coalition, Social Media Trainer and Director
• Sep 2009 — Jan 2012: 350.org, Social Media Coordinator
• July 2008  — May 2009: Social Actions, Labs + Change the Web Challenge Director
• Feb 2008  — Aug 2008: Knowmore.org, Project Lead & Community Builder
• Jan-Feb 2007 - Clown in Training (started first blog, "Notes from a Red Nose")  

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