Join us for an interactive and artistic discussion of books with environmental themes, and the work that they inspire, led by KVML’s Year of the Environment Chair, Drew DeSimone. Part of KVML’s Good Earth: Vonnegut and the Environment 2021 theme, this book club takes place online via Zoom on the last Tuesday of every month from 7-8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The day of the book club meeting, you will receive an email through Eventbrite containing the Zoom link along with instructions for joining the meeting.
The February book club selection is entitled Sustainable South Bronx: A Model for Environmental Justice by Marjora Carter. It can be purchased from the KVML Poo-Tee-Weet Museum Store here: https://kvml.square.site/product/sustainable-south-bronx-a-model-for-environmental-justice/417?cs=true&cst=custom.
Drew DeSimone is an actor and writer with a PhD in Astrobiology, and the 2021 Chair of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library’s Good Earth: Vonnegut and the Environment Program. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Drew was a NASA Fellow at the University of Washington. There he studied the microbiology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents as a proxy for researching the evolution of life on Earth using manned submersibles such as the DSV Alvin. He then spent ten years in c-suites of the Bio Sci and Sports Business industries working in North and South America for companies such as the Seattle Sounders FC and Prozone Sports . Drew continues to be a passionate primary education and animal welfare volunteer who has taught students from elementary school to college, and spayed and neutered thousands of cats and dogs all over North and South America. Drew’s writing explores mental health, upbringing, and our relationship with the natural world.
Marjora Carter is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded and led the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx from 2001 onward, before entering the private sector in 2008.