 from fishermen in the Chesapeake Bay to Inuit grandmothers in the American Arctic. People are watching as climate change is affecting their livelihoods, their culture, the lives that they're living and the lives their ancestors have been living for thousands of years. I'm Victoria Herman and I'm the managing director of the Arctic Institute. I'm working on a project called America's Eroding Edges and throughout 2016 and 2017 I'll be traveling across the United States and U.S. territories to talk to people about how climate change is affecting their communities, their cultures. We'll have multimedia accounts with audio from the interviews, photographs and videos of all the places that we'll be visiting. Often when climate change is discussed it's talked about as a distant problem but climate change is happening all across the United States to Americans. Whether we're living in Washington, D.C. or in Alaska or in American Samoa, climate change is affecting who Americans are and how we live our lives. It's affecting what we eat, it's affecting how we can do our jobs, it's affecting the places that we live in and the culture that surrounds us. The tagline of the National Trust for Historic Preservation is saving places and so much of this work is about saving places from shoreline erosion and climate change. Partnering with the trust really allows me to bring that piece of this project to the forefront and lets me offer that back to the communities I'm working with. The real mission of America's Eroding Edges is to make climate change an American story.