All sessions will take place on Friday, October 29th, from 11:45am – 12:30pm.
The vision for these sessions is to create a space for attendees to make meaningful connections with others navigating shared challenges. Advance sign-up required. Registered conference attendees will receive sign in sheets by email. Contact kristin.barendregt-ludwig@yale.edu with questions.
Click here to sign up for a breakout session! Please sign up for only one session as they will be happening concurrently.
Just energy transitions is a key theme of this year’s Global EJ Conference. What is the relationship between energy security and energy sovereignty? How do environmental justice principles and equitable power relationships translate across energy markets? This breakout session will provide a space for attendees interested in the topic to meet, share experiences from around the world, and reflect on the major questions or challenges that were raised in the morning panel. The vision for this session is to create a space for attendees to make meaningful connections with others navigating shared challenges.
Session is capped at 12 attendees and will break into small group conversations
Are you currently employed as an environmental justice professional in the public, private or nonprofit sector? Would you like to be? The market for environmental justice jobs and careers can be confusing and opaque, even as EJ issues and concerns are rising on the agenda of many employers. Join Kevin Doyle (Executive Director of YSE’s Office of Career and Professional Development) for a lively discussion about current trends in the world of EJ employment. After a brief presentation, Kevin will answer questions and facilitate a group conversation. Come and share your stories about seeking, finding, and achieving success in environmental justice work.
Session is capped at 35
This breakout session is for those looking to connect with others considering questions of environmental justice for urban planning and the built environment. How do you engage with the interconnected energy and resource flows of our cities and infrastructure impacting human health where you live? This breakout session will provide a space for attendees interested in the topic to meet, share experiences from around the world, and reflect on the major questions or challenges that were raised in the morning panel. The vision for this session is to create a space for attendees to make meaningful connections with others navigating shared challenges.
Session is capped at 12 attendees and will break into small group conversations
Food systems are foundational backbones of our societies, and represent one of our most intimate relationships with the land and water. Food Justice looks at secure access to food as a question of power, structural inequality, and human rights. In this breakout session, attendees will have the opportunity to share personal stories and experiences in relation to the food system. The vision for this session is to create a space for attendees to make meaningful connections with others navigating shared challenges.
Session is capped at 12 attendees and will break into small group conversations
Indigenous nations around the world have challenged colonial regimes of violence, control, and racial hierarchy in order to more fully realize their autonomous power, culture, and sovereignty. The Food Sovereignty movement aims to provide a secure base of health access, nutritional balance, and agroecological responsibility so that empowered communities have the resources to fully thrive. In this breakout session, attendees will have the chance to connect with others interested in the contemporary challenges and opportunities in the food sovereignty movements of indigenous nations. The vision for this session is to create a space for attendees to make meaningful connections with others navigating shared challenges.
Session is capped at 12 attendees and will break into small group conversations
Do you use law and policy as tools to advance environmental justice? Would you like to? This breakout session invites attendees to share experiences and pressing questions. For example, What effectively bridges broad legal mandates to localized environmental justice concerns? How do we ensure that historically marginalized communities have a seat at the table to voice their experiences into meaningful policy development? The vision for this session is to create a space for attendees to make meaningful connections with others navigating shared challenges.
Session is capped at 12 attendees and will break into small group conversations
Join moderator, Laura Bozzi, and morning panelists, Diana Hernandez, Cheri Smith, Shannon Baker-Branstetter, Narasimha Rao, and Rory Stewart for a conversation during Lunch under the Kroon Tent. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to continue the conversation from the morning panel directly with panelists in this informal lunch session.
Session is capped at 20 attendees, advance sign up required
Esta sesión es una oportunidad para estudiantes, investigadores, y profesionales para conectar y hablar de sus proyectos en español. Aquí puedes compartir sus pasiones académicas, y situaciones de justicia ambiental, que son locales de su hogar. Hablaremos de nuestros momentos favoritos de la Conferencia de Justicia Ambiental, y las actividades que estamos esperando hacer. Enfocaremos sobre los países latinoamericanos y gente latinoamericana de los EEUU, pero también hablaremos sobre temas globales en situaciones transnacionales. La visión de esta sesión de trabajo es para crear un espacio de conexiones memorables y para navegar nuestros retos.
Are you grappling with questions of environmental justice, regulation enforcement, and the empowerment of human rights when the boundaries of these systems are transnational in scale? Pollution, environmental degradation, and climatic disturbance will not follow humanly constructed borders, but instead complex biologic and geologic flows across the globe. In this breakout session, attendees will have the chance to meet others engaged with transnational human rights issues, and share their local experiences in justice and human rights. The vision for this session is to create a space for attendees to make meaningful connections with others navigating shared challenges.
Session is capped at 12 attendees and will break into small group conversations
