Solutions-Focused Community Conversations
Living with Extreme Heat
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Join us for Solutions-Focused Community Conversations: Living with Extreme Heat, a free webinar about how rising temperatures affect our health, environment, and daily life in the desert.
Local experts will share how Arizona has built one of the strongest heat-response programs in the country and discuss solutions. We’ll also share ways to take action, including signing up for updates and supporting the Environmental Sustainability Impact Fund.
This webinar is for anyone who wants to learn more, support local efforts, and stay involved.
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Time: Noon – 1:00 PM AZ Time
Location: Zoom
Let’s come together to talk about the heat, ways to survive it, and how we can protect our beautiful desert communities.
About the Moderator
Ariana Brocious is a public media journalist, radio producer, and writer focused on environmental stories, especially those that explore issues of place, the natural world, and our connection to it. She has worked at numerous public media stations as a reporter, producer, anchor, and news director. She spent two years leading the reporting for a multimedia documentary project focused on a major Great Plains watershed and in 2017 created an award-winning podcast. She has produced stories for NPR’s Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, Here and Now, Latino USA, and PBS NewsHour, and has a master’s degree in creative nonfiction. She speaks Spanish and some Portuguese and loves exploring the mountains and deserts of the American West.
About the Panelist
Maren Mahoney is an experienced attorney passionate about building an equitable, resilient future for all Arizonans. Trained in systems-level analysis, her expertise is in energy regulation, law, policy development, analysis, and advocacy. Prior to joining the Hobbs Administration, she advocated for state-level energy efficiency and decarbonization policies around the country, served as a Policy Advisor at the Arizona Corporation Commission, and managed an energy policy think tank at Arizona State University. She holds a J.D. from New York Law School, where she was a John Marshall Harlan Scholar and earned a Certificate for Public Service. Maren earned her M.A. in Sustainability from ASU, where she is a Senior Sustainability Scholar. Maren lives in Phoenix with her husband, two children, and their dog, Mr. Bunny.
More panelists coming soon!