Join us for the October All In call to mobilize for this final push and beyond. As we approach the most consequential election of our lifetimes, we invite you to join an intimate and inspiring hour with our community’s own leaders and champions!
About this event
We’re rising to meet this critical moment with all the passion and energy it demands. Join us for the October All In call to mobilize for this final push and beyond. As we approach the most consequential election of our lifetimes, we invite you to join an inspiring hour with our special guest Bill Moyers and our Third Act community’s own leaders and champions: Vanessa Arcara, Third Act president; Kafia Ahmed, CEO; Bill McKibben, co-founder; Akaya Windwood, visionary mentor and Lead Advisor; and volunteers and Working Group leaders on the ground, stepping up in new and powerful ways.
We’ll be celebrating the collective power of this community—first-time canvassers, local organizers, postcard writing powerhouses—who have been hard at work making a tangible difference. The deep canvassing efforts, the powerful GOTV drives, the blue states adopting pivotal districts—it’s all happening because of your tireless commitment to our planet and our people. We’ll share ways you can be more involved and some words on what we’ve learned that can prepare us for many possible outcomes!
Together, we’ll sharpen our strategy for these final weeks, while also looking ahead to the post-election landscape. With your participation, Third Act is positioned to continue protecting democracy, securing election integrity, and advancing our vision for a just and livable planet—no matter the outcome in November.
Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers is the greatest interviewer of our time. Born in Texas in 1934, he went to Washington with Lyndon Johnson—he helped found the Peace Corps, and he served as press secretary to LBJ. Instrumental in the formation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, he won television’s highest award—an Emmy for lifetime achievement—for his decades of sterling programs on the great women and men of our era.
Vanessa Arcara
Vanessa is the President and Co-Founder of Third Act. She is an activist and administrator, a gardener and a mother. Vanessa began her activist work in the world of food justice at Slow Food USA, SolidarityNYC, and on small farms across the northeast of the United States. Her writing has been published in State of the World: Innovations that Nourish the Planet. For the last decade she’s worked on the climate crisis at 350.org, helping coordinate actions big and small. She lives in upstate New York with her family.
Kafia Ahmed
Kafia Ahmed is the CEO of Third Act. She’s been organizing for nearly 20 years in marginalized communities on issues ranging from housing, carceral abolition, racial justice, and immigration. In between years organizing stateside – Kafia worked in international development, working alongside pastoralist communities in East Africa affected by climate change and survivors of gender based violence.
Bill McKibben
Bill is founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities.
Akaya Windwood
Akaya Windwood facilitates transformation. She advises, trains, and consults on how change happens individually, organizationally, and societally. She is on faculty for the Just Economy Institute, is founder of the New Universal, which centers human wisdom in the wisdom of brown womxn, and is Lead Advisor at Third Act. Akaya was President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for many years, and directs the Thriving Roots Fund, which supports young womxn’s finance and philanthropic learning and leadership based in generosity and interconnectedness.
