Public Speaking

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Through keynotes, panel discussions, interviews, and hosting, Carissa offers public speaking services as a medium to bring ideas around ocean climate solutions to life.

Key Topics + Areas of Expertise

  • Find Your Role: Join the Wave of Ocean Climate Solutions

  • Women Wavemakers: Creating Pathways to Environmentalism for Women

  • How ocean conservation can heal our health, economy, and climate

  • Protecting biodiversity for the blue economy

  • Social media for change: the future of ocean and climate literacy

  • Ecotourism solutions: financing, education, and service

  • Recognizing the ocean-climate nexus to meet our climate goals

  • Building your conservation + climate toolkit

  • Community-based conservation in practice

  • Nature-based solutions: harnessing the innate power of the planet

Past Speaking Engagements

Aspen Future Leaders Summit 2024 - Changemaking Through Ocean Solutions

Harvard Chan C-CHANGE Youth Summit on Climate, Equity, and Health 2022 Keynote Speaker - An Ocean of Opportunity: Ocean Health is Human Health

National Geographic Nautilus Expedition 2022 - Communicating Your Science

Hollywood Climate Summit 2023 - Building Your Social Media Toolkit

Aspen Future Leaders Summit 2023 - Voice of the Ocean: Bridging the Ocean-Climate Nexus

Center for American Progress 2023 - Creator Programming & Content Optimization

Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference 2022 - Hawaii Green Fee as a Tourism Solution

Hawaiʻi Pacific University Earth Day 2023 Keynote - Power of You: Sustainability & Collective Action

Pilina Kanaloa: Ocean Action Day at the Hawaiʻi State Capitol 2023 - Moderator

Pledge to Our Keiki: Inspiring Stewardship 2023 - Moderator

ASU GSV Summit 2021 - Innovative Methods of Education

Gillette Venus Board of Trust-Seas 2021 - Women’s Role in Ocean Conservation

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