Running October - December 2023, Living Futures Saturdays is a monthly event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a variety of disciplines. Join us as we listen, learn, and create community and new knowledge.
Our November 4 event will feature presentations from Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop and musician and designer Napoleon Wright II, followed by community conversation and connection. Individual tickets are now available for in-person attendance at perfect lovers in Durham, NC, or via livestream. For discounted tickets to all three fall LFS events, check out the Series Pass.
Presentations:
Keeping the River Clean: Water Quality & Pollution in the Neuse River Basin
Join your Neuse Riverkeeper for a discussion about what makes the Neuse River so special and the many water quality challenges it faces. Learn about how the Neuse Riverkeeper works to address ongoing pollution issues through science, advocacy and community outreach, and how you can get involved in the effort to keep our river clean!
Creative Sustainability
Join illustrator, animator, designer, and musician Napoleon Wright II in a discussion about how creative thinking is necessary for finding solutions to the problems of our future.
About the Presenters
Samantha Krop
Samantha Krop is the Neuse Riverkeeper with Sound Rivers, a nonprofit that advocates for the health of the Neuse watershed from Durham to the Pamlico Sound. Originally a native of Florida’s Gulf Coast, Sam spent summers growing up on the shores of the South Toe River in the Black Mountains, where she fell in love with North Carolina’s waterways. Sam has spent her entire adult life working at the intersection of education and environmental advocacy. Before becoming a riverkeeper, she worked as a coalition coordinator to halt destructive logging on public forests in the Pacific Northwest, as an undergraduate and graduate-level instructor teaching environmental justice at the University of Oregon, and as a high school humanities and civics teacher. Today, Sam works in defense of the Neuse river watershed and all those who rely on it through water sampling, public education, community organizing, and political advocacy.Napoleon Wright II
Napoleon Wright II is an illustrator, animator, designer, musician, and founder of Pan II Creative. Growing up a military brat and spending most of his childhood overseas opened him up to the world in a way that has informed his philanthropic and creative aesthetic. His passion project, Becauseus (pronounced “because-us”), serves as his creative outlet for the greater good. Napoleon believes that as creatives, we have the power and the responsibility to affect change.