People's Great Salt Lake Summit Program

​​Organizing for Action: Candidate Forums & Town Halls

Join with us to plan meetings with elected officials and candidates running for office to discuss policies and action to get more water to Great Salt Lake.

 

Hosted by: Chandler Rosenberg, Stewardship Utah, Jake Dreyfous, Grow the Flow, Deeda Seed, Center for Biological Diversity and Maria Archibald, Utah Sierra Club
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Legislative Solutions to Save the Great Salt Lake
Come learn about how you can help raise Great Salt Lake water levels through real legislative solutions to keep the Lake Great. You can become an expert on the challenges facing the Lake, the simple solutions available to raise its water levels, and how you can be a part of this long term effort to save the largest remaining wetland ecosystem in the American West.

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Hosted by: Zach Frankel, Executive Director, Utah Rivers Council

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How to Write Op-eds and Letters to the Editor (and why it's important)

​Learn how to write an effective Op-ed and LTE, and the nitty gritty in terms of topic, length, how to submit and more.  

 

Hosted by: Brian Moench, Board President, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE)​

 

The Role of Art, Poetry, and Performance in the Movement to Save Great Salt Lake
Join us for a creative panel and discussion about the importance of art, poetry, and performance in community organizing. How does art help engage our community in work to save Great Salt Lake?

 

Hosted by: Savannah Pearson, who is a writer, organizer, and graduate student in the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and is now studying the role of art and performance in climate activism.

 

Alan Gutierrez is a lead organizer with Utah Youth for Environmental Solutions (UYES).

 

Cael Crosby is a poet, musician, and ASL interpreting student at UVU. He has been involved in Great Salt Lake in many capacities, joining with Youth Coalition for Great Salt Lake, Making Waves for Great Salt Lake Artist Collaborative, and most recently working to start the UVU Grow the Flow Chapter. 

 

Josh Craner is a sixth-grade teacher at Emerson Elementary School, where he and his class led the Dear Pelican Project to raise awareness about the pelicans who fled Gunnison Island. His 6th graders also spearheaded getting the brine shrimp designated as the Utah State Crustacean which passed in 2023. 

 

Sarah Ann Woodbury is a sixth-generation Utahn and land-based poet, performer, ritual activist, & PhD student. In collaboration with Great Salt Lake, Sarah has directed a dance-poetry film, organized interdisciplinary lake panels and gatherings across Utah, performed lake-related pieces both in Utah and internationally, written and spoken for the lake, and created protest dance projects bringing larger-than-life shorebirds to the Salt Lake City Capitol during the 2023 and 2024 legislative sessions. As an environmental sociology doctoral student at Utah State University, she researches LDS connections with water and multispecies justice.