​Thanks for posting! Tarry Hum Professor Queens College Department of Urban Studies Graduate Center Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program City University of New York (718) 997-5124 Office (914) 582-8075 Cell Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood<http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2299_reg.html> Hum Gotham Gazette<http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/contact/1232> ________________________________ Panel Discussion This Friday April 7th at Pratt Manhattan at 5:30 PM Reception 6:00 PM Panel Discussion 144 West 14th Street CLIMATE CHANGE + ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE HOLDING GROUND AGAINST ALL ODDS Panelists include : Rob Friedman focuses on climate and environmental justice advocacy efforts at NRDC. He helps facilitate alignment and build principled partnerships between NRDC and grassroots communities across the country on a number of issues, including fighting fossil-fuel infrastructure, advocating for safe drinking water, and centering justice in the development and implementation of climate policy. Before NRDC, Friedman worked on water-quality enforcement and community engagement at Riverkeeper in New York’s Hudson Valley. He holds a degree in environmental policy from Bates College and is a trained organizational behavior coach through the Academy for Coaching Excellence. He is based in New York and knows a lot about spotted hyenas. Farhad Ebrahimi is the founder and chair of the Chorus Foundation, which works for a just transition to a regenerative economy in the United States. The Chorus Foundation supports communities on the front lines of the old, extractive economy to build new bases of political, economic, and cultural power for systemic change. Farhad serves on the boards of the Democracy Alliance, Solidaire, and the Wildfire Project. He is also a musician, a lover of film and literature, and a bicycle snob. Farhad graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics with Computer Science. He lives in Brooklyn. Angela Adrar is the Executive Director of the Climate Justice Alliance that brings communities together to fight the bad and build the new. Angela, Together with over 40+ organizations and grassroots frontline leaders work to forge a scalable Just Transition to a regenerative economy and address climate justice by targeting the root causes of our climate catastrophe. She is a Latina immigrant who proudly comes from a lineage of women farmers and labor activists from Colombia. She has been a leader and outspoken advocate for powerful and grounded social movements led by women for decades at a local, national, and international level. She lives in Washington, DC with her two kids and partner and is an avid Seedkeeper. Elizabeth Yeampierre is an internationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney and environmental and climate justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry born and raised in New York City. She is Executive Director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community based organization. Her award winning vision for an inter-generational, multi-cultural and community led organization is the driving force behind UPROSE. She is a long-time advocate and trailblazer for community organizing around just transitions, climate justice and community-led climate adaptation and resiliency in ‪Sunset Park. Elizabeth was selected as the opening speaker at the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice. In September 2015, Elizabeth was one of the opening speakers at Pope Francis’s Climate Change Rally at the ‪National Mall in Washington DC. She founded the NYC Climate Justice Youth Summit, and in response to the community’s request after Super Storm Sandy, Elizabeth created the Climate Justice Center-NYC’s first grassroots-led, bottom-up, climate adaptation and community resiliency planning project. Ms. Yeampierre was featured in Vogue as 1 of 13 women leading on climate change throughout the world while speaking at local, national and international forums. Eve Baron Chair, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment Pratt Institute Higgins Hall North Room 206D 61 St. James Place Brooklyn NY 11205 ebaron@pratt.edu<mailto:ebaron@pratt.edu> 718/230-6808<tel:(718)%20230-6808> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Collective" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thewomenscollective+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<mailto:thewomenscollective+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.