Celia Alario: Is Interspecies Community Organizing the Future of Environmentalism?
Channel: Pecha Kucha Night Santa Barbara
Date: 2014-05-05

Celia Alario is a communications strategist, media trainer and facilitator, working at the intersection of campaigning, grassroots organizing, media and marketing. In the last 25 years Alario has helped spin groundbreaking media campaigns, provided one-on-one trainings for dozens of incoming Communications Directors, trained hundreds of grassroots spokespeople and placed thousands of stories about critical social justice and environmental issues in media outlets worldwide.  She also teaches Environmental Communications courses in the Environmental Studies Departmentand at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at her alma mater, UC Santa Barbara.

Alario is currently incubating three projects in the social entrepreneurial space to enhance collaboration between academics, journalists and social change practitioners. She proudly serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Story-Based Strategy, formerly the smartMeme Training and Strategy Collective, and on the Advisory Boards of BEN (Business Ethics Network) and IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War).  She splits her time between UC Santa Barbara and her home in Moab, Utah.  Find her on Twitter @celiaalario.