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Public Lecture Title: Common Ground, Common Future: Bipartisan Environmentalism 

Tuesday, October 28, 2025, at 5:10 pm, Stackhouse Theater

Benji Backer is the Founder and CEO of Nature Is Nonpartisan, a movement redefining the environment as a nonpartisan issue once and for all. He is the founder of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), the country’s largest conservative environmental organization, which he founded during his freshman year of college. A best-selling author of The Conservative Environmentalist: Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future, Benji has been named a NYTimes Changemaker, and awarded the Fortune 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30, GreenBiz 30 Under 30, and Grist 50. Benji is a fellow at The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) — and is one of the leading youth environmental voices in the country. Above all, Backer is an avid outdoorsman who spends most of his free time in the mountains out West. He’s a proud graduate of the University of Washington and resides in Scottsdale, Arizona.