Hola and howdy Green Drinkers 🌵
You’re invited to the next Green Drinks Tucson monthly gathering—a fun and informal meet-up of our local environmental community!
Thursday, June 18, 2026
5:30 – 7:30 PM
MotoSonora Brewing Company
1015 S Park Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719
Special Screening: A Place of Trees is a short documentary showcasing how urban forestry is a matter of life and death in the Sonoran Desert. The film focuses on community resilience, workforce development, and expanding the tree canopy to combat extreme heat in vulnerable Tucson neighborhoods.
Featured Guest Speaker:
Leigh Sontheimer (also known as Leigh Ellen) is the Arizona Programs Director for Corazón Latino. Her career is focused on facilitating positive impact and growth for several mission-driven, multicultural, forward-thinking entities: Corazón Latino (present); Playa Viva, a Mexican regenerative resort; The World Bank; and International Youth Foundation. A long-time resident of Washington D.C., she moved to Tucson in 2014 and integrates her love of the Sonoran Desert, its unique ecology and multicultural character (Mexican, Native American, Anglo American), her relationship-building skills, and program development experience into Corazón Latino’s environmental education and community wellness initiatives. She has degrees in business, international relations, and international economics from the Pennsylvania State University and Johns Hopkins University, and a post-graduate Diploma from the International Institute of Social Studies. She is also a yoga instructor, lifelong dancer, traveler, lover of nature, movement, and life. While her ethnic heritage is northern European, she has a global outlook and “corazón latino” (Latin heart).
Corazón Latino is a national non-profit organization seeking to generate social, environmental, and conservation initiatives that foster excellent natural resource stewardship. Our approach is that of ONE Health, fostering collaboration and synergy among diverse sectors and actors to address the interconnected well-being of people, animals, plants, and the planet. We are supporting and promoting urban forestry and climate resilience programs in Arizona and other states with funding and partnership from the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, US Forest Service Urban Forestry Program, and others. Founded in 2018, our work over the past seven years on grassroots advocacy, forestry health, and human health has won multiple awards, most recently a Telly Award, Bronze – Environmental & Climate film category for ‘The City’s Green Room’.
Please feel free to forward this invitation widely—everyone is welcome!
Hope to see you there!