Bringing back the lunchbox

Community ActionReuse 101
Written By Brooking Gatewood

Episode #6

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How to be an influencer in your everyday life to help make reuse cool, with actress Caitlin Fitzgerald

We are all influencers - whether we are acclaimed celebrities like this week’s guest or leaders in our local communities, friend groups, and workplaces.

In this episode, we talk to Masters of Sex star Caitlin FitzGerald about how she brings her values and activism into her work as an actress. Caitlin shares the story of her personal journey toward living her throw-away-free values in her every day life - from making reuse cool at home and on set to pushing back on fast fashion trends and treating each other better on set. There is no throw-away in Caitlin’s vision of a more beautiful world, and she gets a lot of meaning from simply taking action to live her values every day.

Though we may not all have as much public spotlight, there is a lot we can all learn from Caitlin’s journey to move beyond throw-away culture and become influencers in our own lives.

Brooking Gatewood

Brooking hosts Upstream’s The Indisposable Podcast and guides our team on virtual collaboration and culture-building. She has worked with Break Free From Plastic US since 2016 as a facilitator and strategist, and has spent much of the last decade supporting collaborative leadership for many ambitious change efforts - from saving monarch butterflies to curbing diabetes. In her spare time, Brooking can be found writing and performing poetry, or hosting community-connection events in her local LA neighborhood.

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