Author, Speaker, Workshop Leader

About Mary DeMocker
Mary DeMocker helps people fight for a thriving future while deepening connections to family, community, and nature. Her book, The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution: 100 Ways to Build a Fossil-Free Future, Raise Empowered Kids, and Still Get a Good Night’s Sleep (foreword by Bill McKibben) was a 2019 Oregon Book Award finalist. It has been praised by Dr. James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, featured on Yale Climate Connections, and recommended by National Public Radio and in The New York Times.
DeMocker is the co-founder and former creative director of 350.org’s Eugene chapter, with whom she led art-centered climate rallies featured on PBS NewsHour, ArtCOP21, and in an Avaaz video shown to world leaders at Paris climate talks. She speaks regularly about creative climate justice advocacy in the media and to parent groups, faith communities, environmental justice groups, and students from grade school to grad school. She recorded a 2020 TEDx talk on “Re-Storying Our Future With Your Creativity” and has been quoted in The Washington Post, CNN, NPR, The Weather Channel, YES! Magazine, and National Geographic.
Winner of the 2008 Kay Snow Award for Nonfiction, DeMocker’s work has been widely published, including in The Sun, Spirituality & Health, Mothering.com, The Oregonian, USA TODAY Magazine, Oregon Quarterly, Common Dreams, Mother Earth Living, Oregon Quarterly, ISLE, EcoWatch, and Sierra. She lives with her family in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

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New / Upcoming:
- Popular Science / HotHouse feature: Climate justice education. It's all about emotions & empowerment.
- WIRED: How to Talk to Children About Climate Change article includes quotes from Mary
- ROMPER published an updated excerpt from Mary's book's in a special issue helping families engage in climate solutions.
Recent Projects
- 2021 Interview on WYNC's The Brian Lehrer Show
- PIELC 2021 Virtual Panel - "How to Talk With and Empower Youth in the Climate Crisis" - Moderated by Mary
- 2021 Weather Channel interview: Kids & climate crisis
- "So Your Kids Are Stressed Out About The Climate Crisis: Here's how to help" article, Sierra Magazine
- Minding Nature Journal reprinted Mary's Sun Magazine interview with Kathleen Dean Moore on the moral urgency of the climate crisis.
- Seattle's Child features Mary in Author Chat
- National Geographic Family (caveat: All of Mary's quotes on system change & civics with kids were cut.)
- Mary's TEDx talk! Re-Storying Our Future With Your Creativity
- Review of Jamie Margolin's book "Youth to Power" in Sierra Magazine
- Mary featured in Washington Post article about families prioritizing system change
- Mary interviewed by Michael Krasny on KQED’s The Forum
- NPR article "How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change" quotes Mary. The podcast -- different from the article -- recommends book!
- AUDIOBOOK version of The Parents' Guide to Climate Revolution!
- Check out the many wonderful reviews on Goodreads and Amazon -- and add your own!
