Speaking:
Despite being in her late 20s and being a full-time college student, Brook has given over 100 speeches. Thompson enjoys sharing her unique perspective as an Indigenous academic, activist, and artist on topics including but not limited to TEK, water quality, climate change, policy, and infrastructure. She often talks about her personal experience with the Klamath Dam Removals, the largest dam removal in US history, and her interdisciplinary research on Spring Chinook Salmon in the Klamath River.
Please fill out the contact form here if you would like Brook Thompson to speak at your event. Please note that because of increased inquiries, her prioritization of completing her Ph.D. research, and her commitment to her engineering responsibilities, she is highly selective on speaking engagements in 2025 and 2026.
General Speaking Topics:
Dam Removal, Water Quality, Chinook Salmon & Lamprey
Academic Success & Learning Disabilities
Importance of Interdisciplinary Research
Climate Change & Environmental Justice
Restoration & Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Science Communication with the General Public
Water & Native American Public Policy
Civil/ Environmental/ Water Engineering Infrastructure
Indigenous Leadership & Hope for the Future
Audience:
Brook prides herself on the range of audiences she presents to, from 1st graders in elementary schools to doctoral students and everyone in between. Brook talks to groups that vary from the general public to engineering professionals. She tailors her language, examples, and figures to meet the audience where they are at. For speeches that include an international audience, such as the United Nations, Brook goes above and beyond to translate slides to the best of her ability into the most common languages and avoids words that do not have direct translations into other languages. Her audience size ranges from as small as 10 to as large as 3,000! A full list of organizations that have asked brook to speak can be found by clicking here.
Highlighted Groups Brook Has Spoken to:
