Elizabeth Cole

She / her
Co Founder
An analog astronaut wearing a simulation space suit with the sun shining through the helmet. She speaks through a radio mouthpiece in front of a desert mountain range.
Photo credit / Image credit
Scott Beibin

Elizabeth Jane Cole is the co founder of Evil Twin Booking Agency, a speakers agency dedicated to advancing new ideas while transforming culture.

She and Scott Beibin started the agency as a culture jamming project that challenged institutions of power by bringing emerging ideas from radical and underground scenes into the broader culture.

While running the company she has been privileged to regularly be able to put her writing, editing and research skills to good use while working on projects and campaigns that interest her.

She has had the honor of working with Boots Riley, Nadya Tolokonnikova (creator of Pussy Riot), Glenn Greenwald, Vandana Shiva, The Yes Men, Edward Snowden, and many other thinkers, creators and do-ers.

In the past she has enjoyed writing for Wired Magazine and other publications.

She has also written and produced an episode for NPR's Love and Radio Podcast.

She is currently working on a piece about her time in an astronaut simulation at the Mars Desert Research Station as the Crew Journalist.

 

Sessions

What I Learned From Living on Mars

Elizabeth Cole, Scott Beibin

Summary
Does designing for Mars help us feed and care for people on Earth? At the Mars Desert Research Station, a Mars analog habitat, the crew developed life support systems that can feed and support people in the most challenging and inhospitable environments.
Climate crisis
Design
This is FUN
Stage 10
Talk
English
Conference