lake effect: defending the greatest snow on earth panel discussion
About this event
lake effect: defending the greatest snow on earth panel discussion Thursday, August 27th | 6 PM Doors | 6:30 PM Start | Our Lady of the Snows | Free | Sign-up Required Join us for a panel discussion on the relationship between the Great Salt Lake and snowpack in the Wasatch Mountains. Presented by ACE, Torrey House Press, Grow the Flow, and Save Our Canyons, LAKE EFFECT is a call to understand the connection between the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Mountains and how we can defend the greatest snow on earth. Featuring Ayja Bounous and Teri Harman, writers and contributors to the anthology The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake; Jake Dreyfous, managing director of Grow the Flow; and Jack Stauss, Executive Director of Save Our Canyons; and moderated by Torrey House Press Executive Director Kirsten Johanna Allen, LAKE EFFECT invites a community discussion on how to maintain a legacy of winter for future generations. ABOUT THE PANELISTS: Kirsten Johanna Allen \(she/her\) directs acquisitions, editing, production, and marketing for Torrey House Press with co-executive director Will Neville-Rehbehn. As co-founder, Kirsten has steered the press from its earliest inklings to publish conservation through literature to become the powerful platform for books and ideas about the natural world and the West that it is today. Kirsten holds a BA from Westminster College and an MPH from the University of Utah. She has two grown children and lives with a pair of cats and her spouse, Mark Bailey, in Salt Lake City and Torrey, Utah. Ayja Bounous is a Salt Lake City-based writer inspired by water in all its forms. She is the award-winning author of Junior Bounous and the Joys of Skiing and Shaped by Snow: Defending the Future of Winter, and a contributor to Alta and Little Cottonwood: Jewel of the Wasatch Mountains and The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake. Ayja holds a master's in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah and hosts Snow \+...
Location
📍 Our Lady of the Snows Center, Alta, UT
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