Closing by Baratunde Thurston | Bioneers 2025

Baratunde Thurston, host and Executive Producer of the PBS TV series America Outdoors, creator of the How To Citizen and Life with Machines podcasts, and author of the comedic memoir How to Be Black, summarizes three days of the 2025 Bioneers Conference in an astonishing spoken word performance.

Baratunde Thurston, a writer, communicator, and creator and host of the How To Citizen podcast, is also a founding partner and writer at Puck. His newest creation is Life With Machines, a YouTube podcast focusing on the human side of the A.I. revolution. Author of the bestselling comedic memoir, How To Be Black, Baratunde also serves on the boards of Civics Unplugged and the Brooklyn Public Library and lives in Southern California.

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Baratunde Thurston – From Me to We, A Story of Interdependence

While we work fervently in response to the many crises we face, we also need to pay attention to the story, because what we tell ourselves about ourselves shapes how we show up in these times. In this keynote address, Baratunde Thurston shares the stories he has been unearthing about our relationships with the natural world, our fellow humans, and even with machines, that provide strong hints of where we need to go and how to get there.

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