Youth Program & Coalition Co-Manager
Eben E. B. Bein is a high-school-teacher-turned-climate-justice-educator, activist, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist. They grew up in a cohousing community on Nipmuc land (Acton, MA), earned a B.A. in Biology and teaching certificate from Dartmouth College in 2009, and taught biology for 7 years, 4 of which were at Revere High School. In 2016, they completed an M.S. in Science Writing at MIT, for which their work was published in the likes of The Atlantic and NOVA PBS.
In 2018, they joined the youth-serving nonprofit Our Climate as Massachusetts Field Organizer shortly after Clean Water helped the organization establish a Massachusetts node. In 2020, Eben helped co-found the Massachusetts Youth Climate Coalition, where they remain an Adult Administrator who co-learns and co-leads with next generation climate advocates in over 25 organizations across the state. They are also a Planning Team member of Mass Power Forward, the largest climate coalition in MA.
These days, Eben guest speaks, advises and helps develop and facilitate intergenerational climate justice programming, including for several nonprofits. They co-manage Clean Water’s Youth Action Collaborative program, coach alums of that program, and share their favorite radical listening practices to mixed-age groups at the Heart-to-Heart Inc. They are also over a hundred pages into writing their first nonfiction book about their transition from teaching to activism.
They also enjoy all sorts of art: singing, dancing, visual art, and, most recently, poetry. They were a 2022 Fellow for the Writing By Writers workshop and winner of the 2022 Writers Rising Up “Winter Variations” poetry contest. Their poems can be found in the likes of Nimrod International Journal, New Ohio Review, PINCH Journal, their first chapbook Character Flaws, four anthologies, or at ebenbein.com. They currently live on Pawtucket land (a.k.a. Arlington, MA) in a house they co-bought with their husband and poet friends.
