Season 2: Episode 10 – Brooke Havlik

The need for effective climate communication and storytelling is paramount to reach a public tipping point on important individual and political action. Good design and communication can shape any worldview and influence change. That is the good work Brooke Havlik had done for over a decade. In this episode, Brooke shares her vast experiences working in climate communication and effective strategies designers can use to turn the tide toward a better climate future.

This podcast is sponsored by Dreamhost.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Yale Program on Climate Communications

• Clean Creatives

• Covering Climate Now

• Data for Progress

• Climate Nexus

• DRILLED Podcast

Brooke is a strategic communications expert with over a decade of experience creating and executing global campaigns for human rights, climate, democracy, and science-based organizations. Through her consultancy business, Brooke Havlik Communications, Brooke works with nonprofits, philanthropy, and media outlets that are focused on impact.

Brooke is experienced in pursuing policy levers, narrative and culture change, storytelling, thought leadership, earned, owned, and paid media in order to achieve communications goals. She has advised philanthropy directors, influential nonprofit leaders, human rights advocates, and helped to conceptualize, design, and launch successful communications strategies. She has a keen ability to initiate, shape, and implement projects, using her network of relationships in key media markets, like New York City, D.C., and London. Brooke’s work shaping narratives has been featured in more than one hundred national and international news outlets, ranging from The Guardian and BBC to The Washington Post.

Prior to founding Brooke Havlik Communications, she served as a Communications Officer at Open Society Foundations, where she worked across several human rights programs. She served as the lead communications advisor for the Open Society Justice Initiative, often collaborating on complex legal campaigns in regional and international courts on issues such as press freedom, corruption, crimes against humanity, and ethnic discrimination.

At WE ACT for Environmental Justice, she served as the Communications Director, supporting climate communication and advocacy campaigns at the federal, state, and municipal level, as well as advising senior leadership, including Peggy Shepard. She began her media career at WGBH-Boston, writing, editing, and directing digital content for the award-winning science documentary series NOVA.

She is a judge for the Shorty Impact Awards, an international awards program created to raise global awareness around the positive impact that brands, agencies, and nonprofits can have on society. In her spare time, she coordinates Brooklyn Neighbors for Refugees, a volunteer-led community sponsorship program for Afghan refugees. Brooke lives in Brooklyn, NY..

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Theme music by Casual Motive

At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.

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