Antioch University New England
Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience
12-1:00 PM ET
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
The time has never been more urgent for environmental advocacy. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequity are creating an increasingly unstable and impoverished world. The magnitude of the problems we face demands systemic changes to our economy and way of life, and science and education alone are not sufficient to bring about those changes. We need a new generation of savvy environmental advocates and activists, and more scholarship and teaching of advocacy so that more people can take informed and strategic action to create systems change. The environmental advocacy webinar series presents activists and scholars leading solutions to environmental problems through advocacy.
Speaker: Elizabeth Yeampierre
Elizabeth Yeampierre is an internationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney of African and Indigenous ancestry and environmental/climate justice leader who is the executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldest Puerto Rican community-based organization. She is also the Co-Chair of a national alliance called Climate Justice Alliance and the co-founder of #OurPowerPRnyc. Her award-winning vision for an intergenerational, multicultural, and community-led organization is the driving force behind UPROSE.