VIRTUAL
Women & Wisdom:
What Sea Turtles Teach Us About Resilience
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PST
What to Expect
Join marine biologist Maddalena Bearzi as she shares the story behind The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle—a tale of resilience and conservation
Sea Turtles have a story to tell us about how they rely on innate abilities to traverse unimaginable distances and survive the perils of the ocean. In The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle, renowned marine biologist, conservationist, and author Maddalena Bearzi takes us on a journey of one sea turtle from hatching to adulthood, and the obstacles it faces along with the beauty it encounters. Though written for children, this book offers lessons for all ages, with stunning illustrations and accurate facts about the life of sea turtles.
Maddalena Is back for the third time to give the RevelEleven audience a firsthand look inside the inspiration for this beautiful book to be released May 13.
Our conversation with Maddalena will cover many topics like:
Maddalena’s life long work in ocean conservation
Her passion for and experiences working with sea turtles
Why she is writing children’s books that are also for adults
Why we must all do our part to save our planet
How perseverance and resilience have shown up in her work and life
"Dr. Maddalena Bearzi has written a beautiful, moving and factually accurate account of the life of a green sea turtle from hatching through the life cycle. Told with gorgeous illustrations by Alex Boersma, we see a tiny hatchling emerge from its nest on a tropical beach, traverse the perils of life in the ocean, and eventually return to the same beach to lay her own eggs. The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle is a lovely story of adaptation, renewal and survival." --Craig Stanford, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Chair, TFTSG, IUCN Species Survival Commission, and author of The Last Tortoise and The Turtle Crisis
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Duration: 1 hour
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PST
About Maddalena Bearzi
Maddalena Bearzi is President and co-founder of Ocean Conservation Society. She has a Ph.D. in Biology and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of California, Los Angeles. Maddalena has been actively involved in studying the ecology of marine mammals with a strong conservation bias since 1990. Her research work on dolphins, whales, and pinnipeds off Southern California has been ongoing for over twenty-five years and represents one of the longest studies on these animals worldwide.
She has published many scientific peer-reviewed papers, she is co-author of the bookBeautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins and author of Dolphin Confidential: Confessions of a Field Biologist as well as Stranded: Finding Nature in Uncertain Times. Her illustrated children’s book The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle is now available!
Maddalena has experience as a photo-journalist and television correspondent for Italian TV networks. Her scientific research and books have been covered, among others, by CNN, KPCC, PRI, Take Part Live, the Los Angeles Times, the New Scientist, American Scientist, and The Huffington Post. She has worked as a blogger for the National Geographic, and she continues to write essays and op-eds on current environmental issues and wilderness for different media.
