I have given talks on student debt, environmentalism, roaming rights, my book Walden on Wheels, and my Keystone XL expedition (as told in my second book Trespassing across America). I have co-presented with environmentalist Bill McKibben in Middlebury, Vermont. I have given talks at colleges such as Harvard, Duke, NYU, Smith, Colby, Bates, Tufts, The New School, Colgate, College of the Holy Cross, Rutgers, Franklin Pierce, Rosemont, Rider, Paul Smith’s College, New England College, Wake Forest, UConn, Appalachian State, North Central, Susquehanna, Salve Regina, SUNY Buffalo, University of Southern Maine, Hamilton, Skidmore, Lycoming, Mansfield, Marietta, Western Michigan, U of I Urbana-Champaign, U of I Springfield, Mount Mercy, Drake, Morningside, Chadron, UC Northern Colorado, Kenyon, High Point, Hampden-Sydney, Scranton, West Chester, Muhlenberg, Donnelly, Franklin and Marshall, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Iona, U of New Hampshire, Endicott, Middlebury, Albany, MacEwan University, Public Interest Environmental Conference at the University of Florida, Story Catcher Writer Workshop (Summer 2017), Germantown Academy, Proctor Academy, Thoreau Farm, Nature Conservancy, Wigtown Scottish Book Festival, Haystack Book Festival, Woody Guthrie Center, Arkansas Literary Festival, Little Rock Central High, Vilnius Lithuania, and many bookstores. My high school talks include Phillips Exeter, Proctor Academy, Germantown Academy, St. Edward, and Little Rock Central High.
If your high school, college, group, or bookstore is interested in hosting me as a speaker, please send an email to me at spartanstudent@gmail.com. I am available for writing workshops, keynote addresses, and general speaking engagements. I am happy to talk to book clubs and high school classes over Skype, free of charge.
In the Media
TV/Video
CBC News Interview - interview about 2012-13 Keystone XL Expedition - October 2012
Mother Jones - interview about 2012-13 Keystone XL Expedition - January 2013
Newspapers/Magazines
Cameo in New Yorker article - Spring 2017
National Geographic interview - Spring 2017
Washington Post review of Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Los Angeles Review of Books review of Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Wall Street Journal review of Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Metro review of Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Booklist review of Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
New York Times interview on 2012-13 Keystone XL Expedition
Lincoln Journal Star interview on 2012-13 Keystone XL Expedition
Blue Ridge Outdoors interview on 2012-13 Keystone XL Expedition
Woz interview on 2012-13 Keystone XL Expedition
The Globe and Mail - interview on Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Delfi (Lithuanian newspaper) - interview on Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Duke Magazine - interview about vandwelling experiment - Spring 2010
Raleigh News and Observer - interview about vandwelling experiment - January 2010
The Buffalo News - interview about vandwelling experiment - January 2010
Radio
Public Lands Podcast - Winter 2020
The Trek and Backpacker Radio - April 2019
99 Percent Invisible - Summer 2018
Rick Steves Podcast - Winter 2017 (Interview starts at 32:30)
The Story with Dick Gordon - Interview (Part I of Keystone XL Expedition - Fall 2012
The Story with Dick Gordon - Interview (Part II of Keystone XL Expedition - Winter 2013
NPR Marketplace - Interview about Walden on Wheels - May 2013
CBS Minnesota - interview about Walden on Wheels - June 2013
Frank Love - interview about Walden on Wheels - July 2013
Winston-Salem NPR - interview about Walden on Wheels - July 2013
The Story with Dick Gordon on living in a van - Winter 2010
Websites
Huffington Post - interview about 2012-13 Keystone XL Expedition - March 2013
Outside Magazine - article about 2012-13 Keystone XL Expedition - Winter 2012
The Active Times - interview about my 2012-13 Keystone XL Expedition - May 2013
Yahoo - interview about Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Business Insider - interview about Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Time Magazine - interview about Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Bloomberg - interview about Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Hippocampus - interview about Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
AOL Finance - article about Walden on Wheels - Summer 2013
Save the Student - article about vandwelling - Winter 2018
CBC News - interview about Trespassing across America - Spring 2018
Rolf Potts - Winter 2019
