Bay Made Showcase | How We Build This with May Boeve
Date and Time
- Thursday, Jan 29, 2026 6:30pm - 8pm
Location
KALW
220 Montgomery St
Details
How We Build This - Live Podcast Recording
Join KALW for a live recording of How We Build This, May Boeve's podcast about building social movements in a time of rising authoritarianism and shrinking rights.
This lively event will be a chance to gather in community, get inspired, and learn new tools as we seek to transform our communities and ourselves in the process. May will be joined by fellow Bay Area strategists and organizers Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen. They will be in conversation about storytelling as a catalyst for courage, belonging, and power.
About the Speakers
May Boeve is a next generation climate and social movement leader. For 15 years she served as the founding Executive Director of 350.org, an international climate advocacy organization that she co-founded in 2008. May is host of podcast How We Build This, and co-author of the Oxford Handbook of Climate Action and Fight Global Warming Now. She was featured as a TIME Magazine next generation leader, and is a recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award, and has been featured in numerous publications as a thought leader about movement building to fight the climate crisis.
Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen are the co-founders of The Million Person Project, a global storytelling and leadership initiative that has worked with thousands of changemakers from more than 70 countries — including community organizers, educators, artists, and movement leaders. Their work supports individuals and organizations in using personal storytelling to build movements, connection, and belonging.
About the Podcast
How We Build This is a podcast how we can take action in a time of rising authoritarianism and shrinking rights. Hosted by longtime climate and movement leader, May Boeve, each episode finds May in conversation with with organizers, activists, and change-makers as they try to make sense of how movements are born, and how they grow, and what we can do right now.