Friday, October 27, 2023
Breakfast and Registration |
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9:00 am |
Location: Knobloch Environment Center, Kroon Hall |
Welcome and Opening Statements |
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9:30 am |
Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online Welcome by Ingrid C. “Indy” Burke
Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean, Yale School of the Environment Opening Remarks by Graciela Chichilnisky
Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics, Columbia University; co-founder, Global Thermostat Sarah Sladen
Agency Youth Coordinator, USAID
Bishop William J. Barber II
Co-Chair, Poor People’s Campaign
Founding Director, Center for Public Theology and Public Policy
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Break |
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10:30 am |
Location: Knobloch Environment Center, Kroon Hall |
Track Sessions 1 |
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10:45 am |
Location: Kroon Hall, One session online only Tracks are organized around methodological questions and are designed to answer questions and build capacity on how joy can increase and accelerate impact. Panelists will cover diverse topics and each workshop will answer a common set of questions about how to make joy a transformative element in EJ, CJ and broader environmental work. (Tracks repeat Friday afternoon and Saturday morning) Conference Tracks
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Lunch Break and Networking |
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12:15 pm |
Location: Knobloch Environment Center, Kroon Hall |
Plenary Panel: What is Environmental Joy? A Multi-disciplinary PerspectiveEnvironmental leaders in the arts, policy, science, and economics explore dimensions of joy within their respective fields and why it is worth attending to joy to advance environmental justice. |
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1:30 pm |
Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online Toshi Reagon
Musician, Producer, and Activist; Composer, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower Bruni Pizarro
Director of Brand Strategy, For La Diáspora Studio
Michael Méndez
Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning and Policy
University of California, Irvine
Juan Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera
Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of the Environment |
Track Sessions 2 |
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2:45 pm |
Location: Kroon Hall, One session online only Tracks are organized around methodological questions and are designed to answer questions and build capacity on how joy can increase and accelerate impact. Panelists will cover diverse topics and each workshop will answer a common set of questions about how to make joy a transformative element in EJ, CJ and broader environmental work. (Tracks repeat Saturday morning) Conference Tracks
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Break |
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4:15 pm |
Change Location for Evening Events |
The “Happiness Lab” Live Podcast with Dr. Laurie Santos with Musical Guest Toshi Reagon in Concert!Conference attendees have priority access to a special live-recorded episode of the podcast featuring interviews with a leading Social psychologist studying environmental joy along with environmental justice leaders practicing it. Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely with Matt Graff, Mishti, Ann Klein, and Carla Duren in concert directly following. |
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5:15 pm |
Location: Woolsey Hall Laurie Santos
Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology, Yale
University
Elizabeth Dunn
Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia
Christine Cordero
Co-Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Louis Qaqish
Senior Project Management Specialist, USAID
musical guestToshi Reagon
Musician, Producer, and Activist; Composer, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower |
Sunset Joy Reception |
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7:30 pm |
Location: Schwartzman Center, President’s Room |
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Breakfast and Registration |
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8:30 am |
Location: Knobloch Environment Center, Kroon Hall |
Plenary Session |
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9:00 am |
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online Gretchen Goldman
Climate Change Research and Technology Director,
United States Department of Transportation
Lyla June Johnston
Artist, Scholar, Community Organizer
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Track Sessions 3 |
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10:15 am |
Location: Kroon Hall, One session online only Tracks are organized around methodological questions and are designed to answer questions and build capacity on how joy can increase and accelerate impact. Panelists will cover diverse topics and each workshop will answer a common set of questions about how to make joy a transformative element in EJ, CJ and broader environmental work. (Tracks repeat) Conference Tracks
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Track Report Outs |
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12:00 pm |
Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online |
Closing Plenary |
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12:45 pm |
Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online |
Careers in Environmental Justice Workshop |
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1:30 pm |
Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online Kevin Doyle
Executive Director, Office of Career and Professional Development, Yale School of the Environment
Eleanor Thompson
Deputy Director, Programmes, Namati Sierra Leone
Mark Freudenberger
Senior Associate, Tetra Tech
Jennifer Baldwin
Environment Division Chief, USAID Jamaica
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