Nora Gallagher, the Environmental Editor at Patagonia, and her husband, Vincent Stanley, Patagonia’s Director of Philosophy and Chief Story Teller, will be featured in a public conversation at YDS on Friday evening, November 2.
The environmental activists will talk about climate change and what happens to a company like Patagonia – and to people of faith – when they realize that the environmental crisis is not a prospect for the distant future but a present-day crisis.
The conversation will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the second-floor Common Room and is open to the public. Associate Dean Bill Goettler will moderate, with audience questions invited.
Gallagher’s and Stanley’s public event comes as part of their two days at YDS to teach a leadership program course on mission-based entrepreneurial enterprise. Like their course, the public conversation will explore how Patagonia engages the full commitment of its employees on behalf of a larger purpose to produce products that are socially beneficial, minimally environmentally harmful, and, where possible, regenerative.
Nora Gallagher is the author of five books in the tradition of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, exploring the daily living-out of faith and doubt rather than abstract “belief.” In her new memoir, Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic, she draws on her experience as a patient and what she learned about vulnerability and resilience.
Vincent Stanley is the co-author with Yvon Choinard of The Responsible Company and has been a key leader at Patagonia since its beginning. Patagonia’s long-time Chief Storyteller, he helped develop the Footprint Chronicles, the website that outlines the social and environmental impact of Patagonia and its products. He is a visiting fellow at the Yale School of Management and a poet whose work has appeared in Best American Poetry.
The event will be broadcast live on the YDS Livestream page and available for post-event viewing at both Livestream and YouTube.