Bay Made Showcase: How We Build This with May Boeve

Join us for a live recording of How We Build This, May Boeve's podcast about building social movements in a time of rising authoritarianism and shrinking rights. This lively event will be a chance to gather in community, get inspired, and learn new tools as we seek to transform our communities and ourselves in the process.

May will be joined by fellow Bay Area strategists and organizers Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen. They will be in conversation about storytelling as a catalyst for courage, belonging, and power.

Bios:

May Boeve is a next generation climate and social movement leader. For 15 years she served as the founding Executive Director of 350.org, an international climate advocacy organization that she co-founded in 2008. May is host of podcast How We Build This, and co-author of the Oxford Handbook of Climate Action and Fight Global Warming Now. She was featured as a TIME Magazine next generation leader, and is a recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award, and has been featured in numerous publications as a thought leader about movement building to fight the climate crisis. She lives in Oakland, California with her family.

Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen are the co-founders of The Million Person Project, a global storytelling and leadership initiative that has worked with thousands of changemakers from more than 70 countries — including community organizers, educators, artists, and movement leaders.

They are the co-authors of the book How Your Story Sets You Free (Chronicle Books), which helps people claim and share their personal stories as a tool for connection, healing, and social change.

Through workshops, coaching, and talks across the U.S. and internationally, Heather and Julian help individuals and organizations harness storytelling as a catalyst for movement-building, courage, and belonging. They live in San Francisco with their son, Roman.

How We Build This is a podcast how we can take action in a time of rising authoritarianism and shrinking rights. Hosted by longtime climate and movement leader, May Boeve, each episode finds May in conversation with with organizers, activists, and changemakers as they try to make sense of how movements are born, and how they grow, and what we can do right now.

Your RSVP includes admission to Mission Grafica: The Public's Voice, a collaborative art exhibition produced with the Mission Cultual Center for Latino Arts. tracing the evolution of social justice movements in the Bay Area. Through posters and prints — many produced in MCCLA’s community print studio — the show is a living timeline of how Bay Area artists have responded to power, injustice, and change for generations.

There is a $10 - $20 sliding scale suggested donation for this event. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.

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📍 220 Montgomery St., San Francisco, 2 blocks from BART/MUNI

🚪 Reception doors open at 6:00

🗣️ Program begins at 6:30

🆓 The event is free with an RSVP — and you are welcome to donate what you want

Please note:

• The event space is just to the left of the main entrance to the Mills Building at 220 Montgomery Street
• We recommend taking BART/MUNI, exiting at Montgomery, and walking two blocks north
• Ride-shares can drop off and pick up directly in front of the venue
• If you drive, there are several garages within two blocks of the event location; free street parking is available across from the venue at 7:00 pm