Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Dr. Grace Nosek.

Dr. Grace Nosek is a long-time community organizer, storyteller, and sociolegal scholar focusing on environmental justice and democracy. She centers justice, joyful community, storytelling, civic engagement, and systems change in her work and scholarship. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Grace researched novel strategies to inoculate youth against climate despair, and co-authored the City of Toronto’s Youth Climate Engagement Strategy. Grace’s research has been supported by Fulbright, Killam, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholarships, and she holds a BA from Rice University, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a Master of Laws and PhD in law from the University of British Columbia. Her research, fiction, and non-fiction writing have been published and shared widely and she has been a frequent public speaker and media contributor.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Grace bringing her iconic sleepover energy to the pod
• about the power of taking your time and the space to dream
• about ROOTBOUND
• the unbelievable power of storytelling
• Grace on humans as meaning making machines
• insight into external and internal stories
• more about re-releasing and the inspiration behind the revisions in ROOTBOUND
• about stan culture and meme culture
• about "magicifying" metaphorical real world systems
• a real life map of climate action we can take
• more on narrative seeding and real world dark magic
• about the housewives of climate
• how to approach networking through meaningful connection and authenticity

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A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find more of her creative work on Spotify.

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