about judi

Judi Morales Meyer: Environmentalist, Educator, Program Developer, Upcycler.

Judi creates programs focused on education, sustainability and self-reliance. She’s founded programs like; Black Rock Explorers, an educational program for children at Burning Man, the Last Chance Outpost, a fundraising pop-up store at Friends of Black Rock-High Rock and Upcycled Art camps for children at Truckee Roundhouse, where students create using only reclaimed materials.

For more than 45 years, Judi has been sewing, designing and making ucpcyled garments, including original Steampunk ‘funk-tional’ utility gear. She has been teaching sewing and art-making for 20 years.

Judi has been the Textile Shop Lead Volunteer at Truckee Roundhouse Community Makerspace since it’s opening 2016. Since then, she’s been teaching and developing programs like kids camps, maker events and repair workshops. She also volunteers as an event coordinator for Roundhouse’s annual Maker Show in June, and Holiday Block Party in December, managing booths and event maps, and recuits exhibitors and community partners. Judi also coordinates vendors for Obtainium Works events in the Bay Area.

Judi occasionally writes stories about her community for North Tahoe Publication, Moonshine Ink. She lives in Kings Beach with her son Dexter and husband Eli, whom she met while volunteering with the Earth Guardians, the Leave No Trace department of Burning Man. She enjoys gardening, cooking and hand-sewing Scrappy Critters out of fabric scraps.