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Come listen to Adam Nemett on TRUST with his talk titled "When the Apocalypse is Over, I Hope You Like Your Job." Venue TBD Shortly!!

ADAM NEMETT // Director of Brand & Content Strategy at WillowTree // Novelist // Co-Founder of MIMA Music // Permaculture Homesteader // Husband & Father

ADAM NEMETT is the author of WE CAN SAVE US ALL, one of ALA Booklist's "Top Ten Debut Novels of 2018." His written work has been published, reviewed, and featured in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Lit Hub, Fatherly, Variety, LA Weekly, The New Yorker, and C-Ville Weekly. An excerpt of his novel was also anthologized in The Apocalypse Reader.

Adam graduated from Princeton University (BA in Religion) and received his MFA from California College of the Arts (Fiction/Screenwriting). He served for 13 years as creative director and author for History Factory, where he developed the trademarked StoryARC methodology, authored award-winning business history books for Lockheed Martin, Brooks Brothers, City of Hope, and Huntington Bank, and directed campaigns for 21st Century Fox, Adobe Systems, HarperCollins, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, New Balance, Pfizer, and Vitamix. For the past two years, he's served as Director of Brand & Content Strategy for WillowTree, leading a creative team in producing articles, podcasts, and video docuseries on digital technology.

Adam is the writer/director of the narrative feature film, The Instrument (2005), which LA Weekly described as "damn near unclassifiable." At Princeton, Nemett co-founded MIMA Music Inc., a student organization that grew into an educational 501(c)3 nonprofit which has operated in 40 countries worldwide and is now headquartered in Charlottesville.

He runs the popular permaculture homesteading blog thunderbirddisco.com where he shares his adventures collaborating with his wife (Kate Lynn) and children (Jack and Rose) to learn new self-reliance skills.

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CreativeMornings is a free, monthly breakfast lecture series for the creative community. It happens in 223 cities in 67 countries around the world. Charlottesville is the 180th chapter, and your local hosts are Jeremy Stern, Emma Terry, and Maureen Brondyke. There will be a creative lecture (generally) on the 3rd Friday of each month centered around a global theme picked by CreativeMorning chapters around the world! Stay tuned for updates as we announce the theme and speaker on the first of the month. Registration opens at 10 am the Monday before the event!