Event
'Threshold' Founder Amy Martin: 'In Defense of Audacious Goals'
Event Date:
June 13, 2019 | 12:00 PM EDTADDRESS:
The Four Seasons Houston
1300 Lamar Street
Houston, TX 77010
![Winfred Obruk points to the lost beach in Shishmaref, Alaska, where the community's playground and fish-drying racks are now under water. The island faces rapid erosion due to the effects of climate change, and residents have voted twice to relocate. They are determined to move as a community, but while they try to navigate this costly and complicated process, the Chukchi Sea pushes ever-closer to their homes." Image by Nick Mott. United States, 2017.](/sites/default/files/11-16-17/170815_04111_raw_ngm.jpg "Winfred Obruk points to the lost beach in Shishmaref, Alaska, where the community's playground and fish-drying racks are now under water. The island faces rapid erosion due to the effects of climate change, and residents have voted twice to relocate. They are determined to move as a community, but while they try to navigate this costly and complicated process, the Chukchi Sea pushes ever-closer to their homes." Image by Nick Mott. United States, 2017.")
Project
Cold Comfort
Season two of Threshold takes listeners to the homes, hunting grounds, and melting coastlines of...
Amy Martin founded her podcast and radio show, Threshold, with huge ambitions and very little else. Three years later, she and her team have followed bison across the Montana prairie, camped out on the Greenland ice sheet, and had their microphone mistaken for a chew toy by a sled dog—all as part of their quest to dive deep into complex environmental topics and bring nuance to some of our most highly polarized issues.
On paper, it all sounds kind of nuts. But would a more "sensible" plan have been as successful?
Martin and Threshold producer Nick Mott will explore risk and reward in nonprofit journalism in this adventure-filled lunch-time talk titled "In Defense of Audacious Goals" at the Institute for Nonprofit News' INN Days 2019 on June 13 in Houston, TX.
The Pulitzer Center supported Season Two of Threshold, providing Martin with the ability to travel to all eight Arctic nations. She subsequently participated in a range of educational programs at schools, universities and public venues from Columbia, MO to New Orleans.
Her work also screened at the Pulitzer Center's program at the 2019 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.
Learn more about the INN lunch-time talk and about INN's mission to "provide education and business support services to nonprofit [journalism] organizations and promote the value and benefit of public-service and investigative journalism."
