Global Environmental Justice Conference 2023

Conference 2023 Schedule

 

Friday, October 27, 2023

Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am

Location: Knobloch Environment Center, Kroon Hall

Welcome and Opening Statements

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

Break

10:30 am

Location: Knobloch Environment Center, Kroon Hall

Track Sessions 1

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

  • Policy Track: The Joy in Just Policy-Making: Fossil Fuel Organizing in California, the Southeast US and the Caribbean
  • Economics Track: When the Well Runs Dry: Economics, Finance, and Joy in Water and Mutual Aid
  • Governance Track: Grounded Joy: Sovereignty, Land Tenure, Carbon, and the Sacred
  • Evaluation Track: Migration, Displacement and Joy: Evaluation for What Really Matters
  • Geography Track: Climate, Culture, Place, and Joy in the Caribbean

Lunch Break and Networking

12:15 pm

Location: Knobloch Environment Center, Kroon Hall

Plenary Panel: What is Environmental Joy? A Multi-disciplinary Perspective

Environmental 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.

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

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

  • Policy Track: The Joy in Just Policy-Making: Fossil Fuel Organizing in California, the Southeast US and the Caribbean
  • Economics Track: When the Well Runs Dry: Economics, Finance, and Joy in Water and Mutual Aid
  • Governance Track: Grounded Joy: Sovereignty, Land Tenure, Carbon, and the Sacred
  • Evaluation Track: Migration, Displacement and Joy: Evaluation for What Really Matters
  • Geography Track: Climate, Culture, Place, and Joy in the Caribbean 

Break

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.

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 guest

Toshi Reagon

Musician, Producer, and Activist; Composer, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Sunset Joy Reception

7:30 pm

Location: Schwartzman Center, President’s Room

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Breakfast and Registration

8:30 am

Location: Knobloch Environment Center, Kroon Hall

Plenary Session

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
 

Track Sessions 3

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

  • Policy Track: The Joy in Just Policy-Making: Fossil Fuel Organizing in California, the Southeast US and the Caribbean
  • Economics Track: When the Well Runs Dry: Economics, Finance, and Joy in Water and Mutual Aid
  • Governance Track: Grounded Joy: Sovereignty, Land Tenure, Carbon, and the Sacred
  • Evaluation Track: Migration, Displacement and Joy: Evaluation for What Really Matters
  • Geography Track: Climate, Culture, Place and Joy in the Caribbean

Track Report Outs

12:00 pm

Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online

Closing Plenary

12:45 pm

Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Online

Careers in Environmental Justice Workshop

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

People and Partners

Yale Center for Environmental Justice
Yale School of the Environment
Kroon Hall
195 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Email: ycej@yale.edu