This Climate Week event will focus on the impacts of the climate crisis on people of African descent across the globe along with the topics of diasporic solidarity, how to build community in the face of multiple crises and how we build resiliency through these challenges.
The event will feature speakers from different parts of the African Daispora, including Botswana, The United States of America and Latin America. The event will be moderated by Tishman Center Assistant Director Mike Harrington and have remarks from the Institute on Race and Political Economy, a research center at The New School.
Please join Pratt Professor Juan Camilo Osorio and the Pratt Disaster Resilience Network, in partnership with the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program at The New School, for a continuation of our our spring 2021 event series, Communities Beyond Crisis.
The series, created in part to build upon Professor Osorio's course "Planning for Disaster: Crisis, Social Movements and The City'' will discuss the ethical, political and technical opportunities/challenges associated with planning for disaster risk reduction and recovery.
Special emphasis will be placed on the prospect and implications of participatory action research, the contribution of grassroots women leaders in disaster situations, the Movement for Black Lives against racist disaster recovery practices, and the experience of immigrant and indigenous communities in the recovery process.
This event is open to the public. Live Spanish translation will be provided. For questions, please contact us at tedc@newschool.edu
Speakers
Colette Pichon Battle
GULF COAST CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY
Colette Pichon Battle is a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana. As founder and Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP), she develops programming focused on equitable disaster recovery, global migration, community economic development, climate justice, and energy democracy.
Pato Kelesitse
SUSTAIN267
Pato Kelesitse is the founder of Sustain267 and the host of the Sustain267 Podcast. She is an advocate for sustainable African development, climate justice and gender equity, with a demonstrated history dedicated to their advancement.
Kelesitse is a member of the Global Shaper’s Community- Gaborone Hub, a World Economic Forum youth initiative and serves as the Climate and Environment Steering Committee Southern Africa Regional Lead. She is a Climate Reality Leader trained in 2018 and is currently pursuing her Masters of Arts in Development Studies at the University of Botswana.
Luis Gilberto Murillo-Urrutia
MIT ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS INITIATIVE
Luis Gilberto Murillo-Urrutia is a well-known and influential public policy expert. He has more than 30 years of experience and achievements. Murillo-Urrutia has served in key positions in the public sector in Colombia and NGO sector in the US. He was elected Governor of the predominantly Afro-Colombian State of Choco, and under President Santos’ administration, he served as Presidential Advisor and Director for the Todos Somos PAZcifico Development Plan and later as Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development.
Mike Harrington
Moderator
TISHMAN ENVIRONMENT AND DESIGN CENTER
Mike is responsible for supporting the work of the Tishman Center by liaising with offices and departments throughout the university and implementing projects that advance The New School’s commitment to sustainability and environmental justice.