<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ad101a59-7fff-f077-e0a7-266591026984"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For Immediate Release</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Soft Landing Missoula Presents Lecture on Climate Refugees</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As climate change forces more people to flee their homes, do borders keep getting fortified, or are there other ways humankind could be looking for solutions? As the most recent speaker in the Soft Landing Missoula Presents! Lecture Series, journalist and author Todd Miller will explore the dynamics of climate, human displacement, and border security in a talk on Monday, April 1, at the University Center Theater. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The event begins at 6:30 p.m., with Miller’s talk, titled </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Refuge in a Changing World</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Climate Change, Migration and Homeland Security.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> It will be </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">followed by a brief panel discussion, in which we will consider implications of climate migrants for Missoula and Montana plus Q&A. Afterwards, there will be an open invitation book-signing and reception at the Mansfield Center.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“With 68.5 million forcibly displaced people currently across the globe, many of whom have been forced to leave their homes due to conflicts with origins in climate issues, including famine, drought and scarcity of resources,” said Executive Director of Soft Landing Missoula, Mary Poole, “there is no better time to have the conversation about how we can step outside our boxes, and borders, to think of creative solutions that bring opportunity and promise of a good life to all.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This talk is co-sponsored by Climate Smart Missoula, the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, the UM College of Humanities and Sciences, the UM Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism graduate program, and the UM Climate Change Studies Program.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Miller is the author of </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">for which he</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">won the 2018 Izzy Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For the past 17 years, Miller has researched, written about, and worked on immigration and border issues from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico divide. He is also the author of </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Border Patrol Nation</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 2014 and </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the forthcoming </span><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/2908-empire-of-borders" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(128,0,128);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Verso, 2019)</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. His writing has appeared in the </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New York Times, Mother Jones, The Nation</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and other publications.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“We don’t often think about displaced people when we think about climate impacts in Montana, but Missoula is certainly not immune to issues around human migration that result from our changing climate,” said Abby Huseth, Outreach Director at Climate Smart Missoula. “While we don’t know exactly what the future holds, this is a great opportunity to broaden our understanding of what it means to build a more resilient community.”</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information, please contact:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(7,55,99);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mary Poole, ED Soft Landing Missoula- (406) 239-4609 </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*** Please don’t publish phone number.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abby Huseth, Climate Smart Missoula: (406) 219-8876  </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*** Please don’t publish phone number.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The speaker will also be available for questions about his book or talk.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Todd Miller: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">347-752-3004</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*** Please don’t publish phone number. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/zdeBhS3PfgNyWTs8-u_zHp-ZWDOTKDFYfurulXoAmdHS9_a6YDZstjbxFP_06er1GD2LoojEE-xzfwy-DNkca-rPmjeNnJXcjz8PUgGClivQO9ED7gmm1V6IaZtdo1fJCisJHwmD" width="624" height="964" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);"></span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1p5Ax471-bTTR-eIc7CXA9FlhotFzKjun&revid=0B2NZEyLl1ejGdXpUYjR0TmlibTBoOEV6UG83NEJWNlVMZGVzPQ" style="font-size:12.8px" width="193" height="200"></div></div></div></div>