LWVLA News:The League of Women Voters’ Aug. 20 Lunch with a Leader community event is 11:45 a.m. in Mesa Public Library and will feature Genie Stevens from the Global Warming Express.
Stevens was born in New York City and grew up surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, on Cape Cod and then, Nova Scotia. She attended Dalhousie University in Canada, Emerson College in Boston, Harvard University in Cambridge and the University of New Mexico for studies in Theatre Direction, Education, Psychology and Cross-Cultural Communication.
Stevens has lived, for the most part, in New Mexico since 1993, where she has raised her daughter, Marina, who instigated the idea for the after-school program, The Global Warming Express, based upon the book by the same name that Marina wrote to give to President Obama,
Being raised by an ocean scientist in a naturalist family caused Stevens to be a life-long advocate for nature and, in 2012, she decided to dedicate her work exclusively to the environment, and specifically, to bringing education about climate change and the solutions, to children and youth.
To order a $10 lunch from the Co+pP, email Karyl Ann Armbruster at kaskacayman@gmail.com or call her at 505.231.8286. There is an extensive menu. Orders must be placed by Saturday, Aug. 17.