Driving deeper synergy between humanity, Technology, & our planet, barlow has:

+ Built an Int. environmental/social justice venture with such partners as Pine Ridge Treaty Council & Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

+ Helped get Obama elected in 2008 in NYC & nearby swing states

+ Supported the Council of Foreign Relations communications in the wake of 9/11

+ Produced an impact initiative for Google on the importance of protecting the free & open web

+ Influenced technology’s impact on politics, government & society through curation/production of the Personal Democracy Forum

+ Facilitated the first Lakota Black Hills reclamation proposal to Federal Govt. by unifying disparate factions in four-year gathering

+ Created social impact agency within media company Uproxx to influence male, conservative-leaning millennials post 2016 election

+ Curated an immersive installation exploring invasive species at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art

+ Helped to envisage USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab fellowship program as a senior fellow

+ Funded climate emergency activists such as Extinction Rebellion and the Student Strikes with The Climate Emergency Fund

Offerings

Impact Strategy

Creation/execution of comprehensive strategies for measurable impact on complex challenges

Project & Team Leadership

Proactive leadership, organization & execution. Comfort in high-visibility roles & ambassadorship

Development & Systems

Comprehensive assessment for bottom-line driven impact, & frameworks for long-term success

Landscape Mapping & mobilization of disparate stakeholders across sectors, factions, & cultures

Design, production, hosting, facilitation of conversation, & global leader/VIP management

What’s Cookin’

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT: Climate Emergency Fund

Working along side founders Rory Kennedy, Aileen Getty and Trevor Neilson to fund individual activists and organizations dedicated to wake up the public to the threat of climate change and demand action from our leaders. CEF’s founders have been inspired by groups like Extinction Rebellion, which recently staged major protests in central London pushing the UK parliament to declare a climate emergency. Only by changing the dialogue and declaring an emergency will we be able to reach policy solutions that work.

CEF recognizes that this is a critical moment to support activist movements to demand change. We believe that only a peaceful planet-wide mobilization on the scale of World War II will give us a chance to avoid the worst-case scenarios and restore a safe climate. We believe this moment requires large scale disruption through the legal expression of first amendment rights and non-violent direct action. The disruption of everyday life and perceived normal reality is necessary to create a conversation on the climate and ecological crisis. It is not convenient, but it is necessary.

In The Past

EXHIBITION CURATOR: Museum of Old and New Art

Curation of immersive installation in MONA for the experiential feast series and book launch of “Eat the Problem”; an art cookbook of invasive species aiming to turn flaws into features, shit into gold.

SENIOR FELLOW: USC Annenberg Innovation Lab

A multi-disciplinary, impact-oriented Think & Do Tank helping media and technology work for humans - not against us.

EXPERIENCE DESIGN: Psychedelic Integration at Esalen

A week-long, in-depth study of psychedelic research to transform human consciousness - personally and culturally - amidst a global eco-crisis with Michael Pollan, Rick Doblin, Stanislav Grof, and other pioneers.

IMPACT STRATEGIST: Uproxx

Founded social-impact creative agency to influence conservative-leaning millennial audience post-2016 election.

CO-FOUNDER: Black Hills Unity Concert

Creation of the first Federal Black Hills Reclamation Proposal by Unifying Seven Lakota councils and Disparate factions with four-year music festival & tribal leader gathering.

CO-FOUNDER: We The Data

Galvanized & mapped first multidisciplinary network & dialogue on the democratization of Big Data with Intel Innovation Labs & TED Fellows.

SENIOR CREATIVE PRODUCER: Enso

Strategy & production of scaleable “shared value” impact campaigns for brands such as Google that multiplied brand value and consumer engagement/agency.

FOUNDING PARTNER: Harmonic Engineering

A multi-pronged venture tackling systemic social & environmental injustice internationally in key ecosystems & disenfranchised communities from tribal litigation against “ecocide”, to “Green Carbon” sequestration, to the first environmental standard for sapphire mining.

CO-FOUNDER: Pine Ridge Water Project

Provided uncontaminated water for hundreds of community gardens and families with rain catchment systems in America’s most impoverished county, subject to pervasive uranium mine pollution.

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