Q&A filmmaker Jon Bowermaster in conversation with Hudson Valley Farm Hub Director Brooke Pickering-Cole, and Clearwater Tideline Program Director Eli Schloss, and President and Hudson Riverkeeper Paul Gallay
Wednesday, Jun. 20 2018, 7:30
Jon Bowermaster is a writer, filmmaker, adventurer and a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and one of the Society’s ‘Ocean Heroes.' He is the Executive Producer of Oceans 8 Films and President of One Ocean Media Foundation. Author of eleven books, he is also writer, director and producer of twenty documentary films, most recently After the Spill, Louisiana Water Stories, Part II, and Dear President Obama, The Clean Energy Revolution Is Now, produced with and narrated by actor/advocate Mark Ruffalo. Current film projects include The Ghost Fleet, which looks at the global issue of fishing slaves, a six-part series for Vice, “Clean Water Wars” and the web series The Hudson, A River at Risk.
Eli Schloss is the Tideline Program Director for Clearwater, and develops and delivers all of the educational programming that is not related to the sloop, such as classroom visits and field programs on the shore of the Hudson. He crewed on Soundwaters, and the HMS Bounty, was the first mate on the Lettie G. Howard at South St. Seaport Museum, and spent time on various boats in Baltimore Harbor as part of Living Classrooms Foundation, where he was the director of the Customized Job Training department. He has worked at Clearwater since 2005.
Brooke Pickering-Cole, Director, Hudson Valley Farm Hub. Prior to becoming the Farm Hub’s Director, Brooke was the Associate Director for Community Relations for the Local Economies Project of the New World Foundation, serving on the team that developed the non-profit Farm Hub from its inception in 2013. With a background in community development and local government, she is a former town supervisor and town board member in Marbletown, New York (Ulster County) where she has lived for the past twenty years.
Paul Gallay, President and Hudson Riverkeeper Paul and the Riverkeeper team work to protect the Hudson River and the drinking water supplies for nine million New Yorkers. An attorney and educator, Paul has dedicated himself to the environmental movement since 1987, when he left the private practice of law and went to work for the New York State Attorney General then a ten-year stint at New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation and finally a decade in the land conservation movement before becoming Riverkeeper’s President in 2010.
