Jade Begay

And, you know, to, to help young people in her community and, and in indigenous communities to, you know, have access to play in the outdoors and skating and all of the wonderful things that come with that.

You know, I met folks like Jade Begay, who has a show called Jaded, which is a part of this group called Indigenous House, which is, there's an amazing group amazing network of indigenous creatives who are creating tv and film things that you might have heard of reservation dogs and things that you haven't maybe heard of like for instance my dear friend joey cliffs his new book that just came out and he has an amazing show on comedy central that he's a part of and all of these wonderful things that they're spotlighting in hollywood and beyond and jade is in new mexico and was sharing the story of coming up with her own show and what that's like to talk about the world today and how jaded we feel which is a play off of her own name and how we can just not just be pollyanna about everything but also be real about the struggles of what you know an activist or an advocate or a creator goes through much of like what you do on your show you know which is very similar like there's a real nest yet so yeah you know if you go to these states and you really spend time and you not only understand their stories and you you see them in a more nuanced way but we we also i think feel less fearful of people that we don't know or understand that's definitely what i felt too you know like going to places and meeting people that maybe I had some true anxiety and fear about, right? Whether it was towards them or towards what their actions might do for our country.

And I just learned that I think the curiosity that we have towards each other builds to trust and builds relationship.

That's fundamental to us actually working together, let alone just like having a conversation, but like working together to solve these problems in our I think it's the starting point, right?

We need to build something more durable.

And with that, I would love as the durability, and as we talk about building this new house, I want to invite my colleague and just someone I think the world of, Ms. Jade Begay.

She is head of content and community for Indigenous House.

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On behalf of everyone at Town Hall Seattle and our friends at Elliott Bay Book Company, it's my pleasure to welcome you to our presentation with Leah C. Stokes and David Roberts discussing Stokes' new book, The Carbon Wave, a story of democracy, parenthood, and the race to protect our planet.

We acknowledge our institution stands on the unceded traditional territory of the Coast Salish people, notably the Duwamish.

We thank them for our continuing use of the natural resources of their ancestral homeland.

That's like, you don't even have to think about that one again, unless you're becoming like a plastics radical.

But again, if you want to be plastics person, which I fully support, go up the system, man, change the laws because otherwise there's just plastic everywhere.

My friends, this is your little, little tip of the iceberg there.

Let's give a little shout out to Seattle, since we're in Seattle.