Episode 52: Joseph Bish On Storytelling to Change Attitudes Around Population and Conservation Issues
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About Joe
Joseph Bish is Director of Issue Advocacy for Population Media Center
An expert on population, family-planning, and other global sustainability issues related to PMC’s mission, Joe ensures Marketing and Communications initiatives include effective and focused advocacy messaging. Monitoring and analyzing new trends in PMC’s focus issue areas, the field of social change communications, and PMC’s operational landscape, he communicates these findings to both external and internal audiences. Joe holds a Master of Science in Environmental Advocacy and Organizing from Antioch University New England.
Topics
- How storytelling is used to change societal norms and beliefs around conservation and population issues.
- The lessons learned from embedding important education and messaging in entertainment programming.
Extra Credit
Reading: PMC’s analysis of the most influential drivers of ongoing global population growth
Watch: PMC’s “Theory of Change”
Recent Blog Posts:
Director of Digital Outreach (D.O.D.O.) for The Rewilding Institute
Host and Producer of the Rewilding Earth Podcast
Jack started Rewilding work as Executive Director of Sky Island Alliance in the mid-1990’s, organizing the Sky Island Wildlands Network design, ripping up illegal roads on forest service lands, installing wolf acclimatization pens on Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch & conducting howling surveys to help make way for the final stage of the Lobo reintroduction program in the Southwest.
Through the years, Jack has worked with Dave Foreman and the Rewilding Gang to further Rewilding initiatives and education.