Broto 2020 Conference Take Aways

Ian Edwards, MBA, is a journalist by background, a sustainability and communications consultant and founder/producer of Broto: Art-Climate-Science and TEDxProvincetown. He's focussed on big ideas, synthesis and innovation.

Julia Buntaine Hoel is a conceptual artist and founding Executive Director of SciArt Initiative. Julia attained her double BA in neuroscience and sculpture from Hampshire College, her post-baccalaureate certificate in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art, and her MFA of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including shows in New York City, Washington D.C., Amherst, Baltimore, Seattle, Madison, Princeton, London, Toronto, Knokke, Sofia, and others. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of New York University and Johns Hopkins University, and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Smithsonian Magazine, and Hyperallergic, among others. She also teaches, consults, curates, and frequently writes about art, and currently holds positions at Pratt Institute, Montserrat College of Art, and Merrimack College. Julia is based in Boston, MA.

Peter, MBA (specializing in environmental management), is a 25-year veteran of the sustainability, social purpose and social justice movements who has lived and worked in North America, Europe and Asia.

Hilairy Hartnett (Assoc. Prof.) is jointly appointed in the Schools of Earth and Space Exploration and Molecular Sciences (formerly the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry) at Arizona State University. She is also a Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and co-directs the ASU PlanetWorks Initiative. She is a sea-going oceanographer and organic geochemist whose research focuses on Earth systems and Exoplanetary systems and time scales that range from seconds to millennia. She and her students explore carbon and nitrogen cycling in diverse aquatic systems including: urban wetlands, rivers, hot springs, and oceans. She applies field- and lab-based techniques to investigate the processes and feedbacks that transfer of elements (i.e., C, N, and P) and energy between biological and geochemical systems. More recently she is developing ideas and approaches for building consensus among scientists, technologists, governance, and stakeholders around planetary-scale climate intervention. She is fundamentally an ‘interdisciplinarian’ and is often surprised by the things that she now includes among her expertise.