tishman Environment and design center earth week events focus on environmental justice, sustainability, and climate change

NEW YORK, NY, April 10, 2019 – Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School is honoring Earth Week with a series of events focusing on environmental justice, sustainability, and climate change. These events will occur parallel to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Events include the two-day Indigenous Resistance and the Crisis of Mother Earth: Paths to Climate; Inclusion, Equity & The Environment: An EPSM Alumni Panel; and a screening of the documentary, The Human Element. A schedule of all Earth Week   events is available on the Tishman Center website.

Indigenous Resistance and the Crisis of Mother Earth: Paths to Climate Justice - Day 1: Monday, April 22, 2019 at 6:15 - 8:15 p.m.

Room UL104, University Center, 63 5th Avenue

The first day features a panel that opens a space for indigenous leaders and organizations from across the Americas to share their struggles and achievements in the face of a changing climate. 

Panelists:

• Tom BK Goldtooth (Dine’ and Dakota), Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
• Sonia Guajajara (Guajajara Indigenous Peoples), General Coordinator of the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB, Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil)
• Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action
• Dali Ángel Pérez (Zapotec), Youth Coordinator of CIARENA, A.C. (Oaxaca, Mexico), co-chair of the Global Indigenous Caucus and coordinator of the Red de Jóvenes Indígenas de Centroamérica y México (Network of Indigenous Youth from Mexico and Central America)

Moderator: Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Professor, Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment

Indigenous Resistance and the Crisis of Mother Earth: Paths to Climate Justice - Day 2: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 5th Avenue

The second day is a roundtable discussion that seeks to foster critical reflection on the responsibility of academia in relation to the front-line communities and movements directly confronting the drivers and agents of our planetary crisis.  

Speakers:

• Manari Ushigua Santi, Akameno (authority), traditional healer and leader of the Sapara Nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon
• Eduardo Kohn, Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, specializing in the indigenous knowledges of Quichua (Quechua) speaking Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon
• Ronald Suárez Maynas, president of the Shipibo Conibo Xetebo Council of the Peruvian Amazon
• Abou Farman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research
• Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz, Director of the Original Caretakers Program (Center for Earth Ethics), Coordinator of the Otomi-Hñahñu Regional Council, Mexico and steering committee member of the Indigenous Peoples’ Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative
• Geraldine Ann Patrick Encina, Scholar in Residence for the Center for Earth Ethics and Professor of Ethnoecology, New York
• Suzanne Benally (Dine’), Executive Director of Cultural Survival
• Jaskiran Dhillon, Associate Professor of Global Studies, The New School

Inclusion, Equity & The Environment: An EPSM Alumni Panel:  Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Starr Foundation Hall, University Center, 63 5th Avenue

Join us for the all alumni-led panel, Inclusion, Equity, & the Environment. Alumni panelists will bring their unique career perspectives to a discussion focusing on issues such as energy, climate change, equity, environmental justice, diversity and inclusion, followed by a lively and engaging alumni reception. This event is co-sponsored by Tishman Environment and Design Center, Eugene Lang Department of Environmental Studies, and Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment.

Panelists:

• Daphanay Sanchez, MS Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management '15, Executive Director, Kinetic Communities Consulting
• Taylor Morton, MS Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management '17, Teaching Fellow, Trinity School
• Annel Cabrera, MS Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management '16, Senior Director of Engagement and Programming, New York Restoration Project
• Tifani Peguero, MS Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management '15, GreenHouse Program Manager, The Horticultural Society of New York

Film Screening - The Human Element: Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 6:00 - 8:15 p.m.

Room UL104, University Center, 63 5th Avenue

The Human Element, by filmmaker and environmental photographer James Balog, reveals the effects of environmental change. Structured around the four elements – fire, air, water, earth – the film explores the impact of wildfires, hurricanes, sea level rise, and coal mining on the lives of everyday Americans.

The Tishman Environment and Design Center, as part of The New School, is a university-wide center committed to fostering the integration of bold design, policy, and social justice approaches to environmental issues to advance just and sustainable outcomes in collaboration with communities. The Tishman Center offers technical support to community-based organizations, advocates, and policymakers on the frontlines with an emphasis on supporting the co-production of inclusive, bottom-up approaches that amplify the knowledge and expertise of communities. Visit us as www.tishmancenter.org and follow us on Twitter @NewschoolTEDC.

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