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🎵 Composer | Sound Designer/Mixer
🌎 Founder of @cleanearthfuture
🗺 Creator of @climatecooldown

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🎤 Excited to share I'm speaking at @seriousplayconf 2026 at Duke University this week — Aug 7th!
My session: "Holding the Room: Navigating Doom Bias and False Hope with Climate-Focused Serious Games" 🌍🎲

I'll be sharing what I've learned facilitating my game Climate Cooldown and its companion curricula — and handing over a practical toolkit for game-based learning + eco-emotions in the classroom.

SPC26 brings together an incredible global community working across games, learning, health, and social impact — talks, workshops, panels, an expo, and an arcade zone.

If you'll be in Duke, let's connect!

#seriousplay26 #seriousgames #gamebasedlearning #educationalgames

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First Roll of 120 through Lubitel 166b. Tri-x 400

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Grateful to @better.future.club and @garmi.studio for this amazing event. Dealing with the madness of politics as a group makes it more bearable (and fun!). It’s so great to have a veggie plot at @fountain_community_gardens , a secret edenic getaway in the midst of the traffic-jammed LA sprawl.

🪴 🌳 🌆 🏡 #communitygarden #losangeles

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Playing with long exposures in a big field at night, while camping near Sequoia National Park.

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Climate Arts Fest is a free, full-day family friendly community event featuring live performances, 12+ hands-on workshops and 30+ exhibitors! From a free repair clinic repairing your small appliances and clothing mending, to book binding, crafts and coloring, photobooth, native plant skin treatment, to various climate games!

See full event schedule & RSVP via @climatedesignersla’s link in bio or QR code in graphic - luma.com/ogbsm84h

🌟 hosted by @climatectr_wlac
🕑 Saturday April 18th 10am-3pm
📍West LA College, 9000 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA 90230

🎨event branding & design by @i_art_rachel

#ClimateArtsFest2026 #ClimatePalooza2026

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Thanks @variety for the mention! Ecstatic to be back at the @poppyjasperiff with my award-winning documentary Nina is an Athlete, Executive Produced by Jim LeBrecht, produced by Livi Kessel & Janine McGoldrick, consulting by Mia Schaikewitz and supported by @nywift, @fwddoc , Michele Spitz Woman of her Word, and @reelabilitiesny . I’ll be there for the Q&A Saturday April 11th 1:00 PM at The Morgan Hill Community Playhouse. [Image Description: A Variety.com article with some famous actors titled: Poppy Jasper International Film Festival Unveils Lineup. 2nd image is of the documentary line up including #NinaIsAnAthlete and director #RavitMarkus] #IndieDocumentary #Paralympics #JimLeBrecht

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Cooldown or power up? Part 2 of paying climate cooldown

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#climatecooldown #energy #climateaction #santamonica #casm #volunteer #climatesolutions #climateactionsantamonica #climatesolutions

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Are we playing a cooperative game? We should be! Part 1 of playing Climate Cooldown with @thomas.yount

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“Nina is an Athlete” won another award! [Image Description: #AudienceAward laurels from the 2025 #Austin Jewish Film Festival for #IndieDocumentary #NinaIsAnAthlete overlayed on a picture of Writer/Director/Producer #RavitMarkus standing in front of the festival sign and screen, holding a microphone, clearly enjoying her conversation with the wonderful audience]. #directorslife

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Tomorrow is the Future Green Leaders Summit! A wonderful event where future green leaders, policymakers, and innovators will gather in San Bernardino for the Future Green Leaders Summit.

Featuring headliners @aymusik (musician & UN Youth Leader),
@browngirl_green (climate advocate &
youth leader), and
@globalinheritance (creative sustainability organization), this summit will inspire
youth while connecting them to decision-makers.

🌎 🎲 @cleanearthfuture game studio will also be there doing workshops all day long with our game @climatecooldown so come check it out! You'll have a chance to see the game in person and imagine greener futures together with our communities 🌱🌈 ✨️

An event powered by @_SoCaREN and regional champions @sbcitygov, @countyofla, @sbcityusd, @rialto_usd committed to sustainability, equity, and youth opportunity.

📅 Nov 12

🔗 socalren-events.com/futuregreenleaderssummit25

✉️ FLeadersSummit@isd.lacounty.govn

#FutureGreenLeaders #SoCalREN #climatecooldown

Big thanks to SoCalREN for having us at this event! 💚🙏✨️

And @usgbcca 💚

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I’ll be attending the #austin premiere of my award-winning documentary feature Nina is an Athlete at the Austin Jewish Film Festival on Sunday November 2nd at 5pm at Shalom Austin 7300 Hart Lane, Austin TX 78731. Tix link in bio. #indiedocumentary #NinaIsAnAthlete #parabadminton #Paralympics
#Unstoppable #womanhood #motherhood #disabilityrepresentation [ID: the film poster of wheelchair user @ngorodetsky arches back holding her badminton racket mid-air ready to strike on an orange background with festival laurels and the aforementioned screening details] Wheelchair accessible, open captions, audio description available.

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🌐 Honored to be presenting at Scenarios Forum 2025 in Leeds, UK hosted by the Priestly Center for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds.

Some of the main topics covered at the conference are:

- The future of scenarios in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

- Future population health and health systems under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs)

- Regional SSPs in practice: What we have learned and what lies ahead?

I will be presenting on “Serious Board Games on Climate Change as a Tool for Modeling Scenarios”. In short, I created the game Climate Cooldown as a means for us to play out scenarios based on our in-game collective actions and decisions. We get the chance to see what it takes to turn things around through a fun, social and challenging educational game.

Lastly, I want to thank those of you that helped donate or spread the word about the GoFundMe for the Davis Data Driven Change (D3C) student research team. Your support helped enable this team to participate in this conference.

🌈 Let's continue to improve our climate modeling for a better future on this planet! 🌍🌎🌏

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