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Mentorship Showcase 2025: REWORLDING
Join us FOR our annual Mentorship Showcase on March 28-30, 2025.
The event begins with a keynote presentation on Friday evening from 6-8 pm ET on March 28 and continues with two panel presentations + Q & A on Saturday morning March 29 and again on Sunday mornings March 30 from 8 am - 1 pm ET via Zoom.
Each year, our team at Creature Conserve is excited to celebrate our Mentees as they present art-driven solutions for some of the most pressing problems in wildlife conservation.
This year’s theme is “Reworlding.” The showcase will be held virtually via Zoom. Registration is free, and everyone's invited!
Register in advance or right before the session to receive the Zoom link. Note that we will be using the SAME link for each session.
REWORLDING Mentorship Showcase 2025
Program Overview
Click here for a downloadable PDF of the full Mentorship Showcase 2025 program.
FRIDAY, March 28, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00PM Eastern Time, USA
Fellows Presentations | Natalie Field, Lauren Frausto, Lisa Schnell
Keynote Presentation | Derek Russell
SATURDAY, March 29, 2025 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern Time, USA
Panel 1 - A Pollinating Planet | Valentina Arros, Meg Gorman, Anjali Pujari, Ann Gorman | Q&A with panelists
Panel 2 - Parallel Ecologies | Matthew Neubacher, Rashmi Kumar, Karan Jadhwani, Trevor Coopersmith | Q&A with panelists
SUNDAY, March 30 2025, 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern Time, USA
Panel 3 - Soil Fiction | Saloni Thakur, Ariel Kleinberg, Ana Sofia Camarga | Q&A with panelists
Panel 4 - Assembling Our Natures | Tanisha Negi, Altea Narici, Ingrid Stryrkestad, Logan Robins | Q&A with panelists
what is mentorship
Mentorship is multiple, it finds a home in many different places. At Creature Conserve, mentorship is a support system for artists, designers, scientists, and writers as they collaborate and explore the human connection to nature, creating new art-sci pathways to a healthier world for all creatures. It is an opportunity to seek, find, inquire, and collaborate to better understand the challenges facing wildlife conservation today. Together, we seek more than answers. We imagine a better future for all animals and humans.
Creature Conserve Mentees are individuals seeking help or guidance for any personal or professional project related to collaborating (art-sci, writing-sci) and exploring the human connection to nature, creating new pathways to a more sustainable world for all creatures. Our Mentors are established artists, designers, writers, and scientists who have leadership experience (formal or informal) and either currently work in art-sci wildlife conservation or are interested in collaborating with Creature Conserve. We also host Mentorship Fellows who are developing the reach and relevance of our Mentorship community.
Mentorship is an act of reciprocity. At Creature Conserve, we believe that knowledge can always be exchanged. In this way, both Mentee and Mentor enter into their relationship with open minds. As much as this new cohort of Mentees has learned from us, we too have learned from them.