Climate Stories Ambassadors
Are you excited about building the climate storytelling movement? Climate Stories Project is seeking Climate Stories Ambassadors to carry out interviews and share climate stories from communities around the world.
One of the greatest barriers to an effective and inclusive climate change movement is the lack of everyday conversations between community members about the climate crisis, including observations of change, engagement with emotional responses, and envisioning positive ways forward. As a Climate Stories Ambassador, you'll receive training, structure, and guidance to communicate with others in your community about their personal responses to the changing climate.
Here's what you'll do as a Climate Stories Ambassador:
Here's what you'll do as a Climate Stories Ambassador:
- Take part in three online training sessions.
- Learn about climate storytelling and record your own climate story.
- Receive training and guidance to conduct climate story interviews, and record 1-3 interviews.
- Connect with other Climate Stories Ambassadors from around the world.
- Learn valuable environmental communication skills.
- Promote an inclusive and effective movement to confront the climate crisis.
- Receive a certificate of completion of Climate Stories Ambassadors initiative for sharing your own climate story and at least one climate story interview.
The Climate Stories Ambassadors initiative is open to anyone from all ages and walks of life. You'll come away with a deeper connection to climate change as a vital personal and community issue, and make local, national, and international connections with people passionate about the climate storytelling movement.
The Climate Stories Ambassadors initiative can also be adapted for classroom or organizational use. There is no fee for participation, but registration is required.
The Climate Stories Ambassadors initiative can also be adapted for classroom or organizational use. There is no fee for participation, but registration is required.
I realize how invaluable CSP is as a history archive chronicling first hand accounts of a changing climate at a most crucial time in human history. By collating personal, heartfelt stories through firsthand witnesses, it offers an accessible platform communicating Climate Change where science and the media often fails. The more people who are ambassadors the greater the outreach globally.
Jane F.
Invernessshire, Scottish Highlands, Scotland
Fall 2024 Climate Stories Ambassador
Jane F.
Invernessshire, Scottish Highlands, Scotland
Fall 2024 Climate Stories Ambassador
Not only did the Climate Stories Ambassadors program teach me how to interview others, it helped me find the words to describe my own emotions, hopes, and experiences. Through the program I started to recognize and value resources in my community that I previously took for granted. Through the interview process I reached beyond my own network and got to know and connect with other members of my community in a deeper way.
Kate T.
Cordova, Alaska
Spring 2024 Climate Stories Ambassador
Kate T.
Cordova, Alaska
Spring 2024 Climate Stories Ambassador
Here is the Climate Stories Ambassadors Welcome Packet.
Stories and interviews from our Spring 2025 Climate Stories Ambassadors cohort:
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Neil Shepard was interviewed by Climate Stories Ambassador, Valerie Esposito. In this excerpt, Neil describes his town of Johnson, Vermont and how the town was built along a river that now poses an existential threat to the area due to more frequent damaging floods. After a recent flood, locals came together to reimagine how the town could interact with the river in new ways going forward, which included relocating the town library and grocery store to higher ground.
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Ana Swetish was interviewed by Climate Stories Ambassador, Gabby Laipenieks. In this excerpt, Ana speaks about her love of outdoor recreation and how climate change is affecting her ability to be outdoors. She considers how when people feel connected to nature this can empower them to protect outdoor spaces.
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