Endangered Activism was created as a collaboration with my daughter, Devon when she was 12-years old to mentor and develop her activist passions in wildlife conservation and endangered species. We co-created this project to focus on field research, storytelling, and learn best solutions in local conservation and find creative solutions for storytelling in urban and youth communities that aren’t traditionally tied to conservation. We had the opportunity in her 7th grade year to travel for 14 months, putting our apartment belongings into storage, and diving into field research around the world and soon Devon was interviewing biologists, rangers, scientists, conservation leaders, and researchers in Namibia, Borneo, and Argentina about local solutions to the global problems facing extinction and climate change.
Devon’s focus to give voice to the issue was a graphic novel and streetart projects. We co-wrote the graphic novel, The Rosette, and brought Mariana Prieto on to illustrate. We launched the streetart project, #WhatWeLose with Mexican artist, Diana Garcia as a collaboration and mentorship in Paris, Oxford, and Denver, Colorado.
We filmed everything and now we are reading to create a documentary that focuses on the field research and the use of street art as a way of telling the story through a youth voice to inspire youth activism for wildlife conservation and climate justice.