Author, Speaker, Workshop Leader
About Mary DeMocker
Mary DeMocker helps people fight effectively for a thriving future while deepening family and community connections. 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) is a 2019 Oregon Book Award finalist. It been featured on Yale Climate Connections, praised by Dr. James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and recommended by NPR and in The New York Times.
DeMocker is the co-founder and former creative director of 350.org’s Eugene chapter, with whom she designed and co-led youth-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 on podcasts and radio, at rallies, conferences, universities, and literary centers, and to parents, faith communities, environmental justice groups, and students from elementary to graduate schools across North America.
Winner of the 2008 Kay Snow Award for Nonfiction, DeMocker has written for many publications, including The Sun, Spirituality & Health, Mothering.com, The Oregonian, USA TODAY Magazine, Common Dreams, Mother Earth Living, Oregon Quarterly, ISLE, EcoWatch, and Sierra. She lives with her family in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
Email: marydemocker@gmail.com
For interview and media requests, please contact Mary at marydemocker@gmail.com or Monique Muhlenkamp,
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Literary representation: Jennifer Unter, www.theunteragency.com
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Want climate justice? The *most important* thing you can do right now is to get out the vote in swing states.
We can't let polls comfort us when DT has called for his "army" to show up at polling places. The GOP, aware it is losing, is using every trick in the book to suppress votes & tie this election up in courts.
So: Write voters. Make calls. Donate to GOTV groups. Repeat. And hang in there -- people power works.
October public speaking calendar:
10/3: Keynote, Families for a Livable Climate benefit: “Why Parents are Key to the Climate Movement”
10/17: Mothers Out Front California Convening: “Deploying Mother Power in Tumultuous Times”
10/20, LitQuake- San Francisco’s Literary Festival, 7 pm PT: “The Daily Dose: Feminist Writers Respond to the Climate Emergency”
10/24: Keynote, 350.org Sacramento 10th anniversary
10/29 TEDx talk, Portland State University: “Re-Storying Our Future through Creativity” -- Details TBA!
New Interviews, Reviews & Articles
- Mary's review of Jamie Margolin's book "Youth to Power" in Sierra Magazine
- Mary quoted in new Washington Post piece, "How the pandemic has inspired some teens to get off their laptops and go outside"
- Mary featured in Washington Post article about families prioritizing system change in the climate crisis
- Mary's book chosen for the 2020 Skipping Stones Honor Award
- By Mary: For Mother's Day, Moms Don't Need Flowers. We Need Political Power. -- Sierra magazine
- Interview of Mary by Michael Krasny on KQED’s The Forum
- Yes! Magazine quotes Mary
- Mary interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio
- Review of Parents Guide to Climate Revolution in Natural Mother Magazine
- NPR article "How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change" quotes Mary. The podcast -- which is different from the article -- gives a shout-out about Mary's book in the middle!
- AUDIOBOOK version of The Parents' Guide to Climate Revolution is here!
- Check out the many wonderful reviews on Goodreads and Amazon -- and add your own!
