Sessions
Welcome and Opening Statements
Presenters
Co-Chair, Poor People’s Campaign, Founding Director, Center for Public Theology and Public Policy
Yale Divinity School
Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics, Columbia University
Co-Founder, Global Thermostat
Plenary Panel: What is Environmental Joy? A Multi-disciplinary Perspective
Panelists
Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning and Policy
University of California, Irvine
The “Happiness Lab” Live Podcast with Dr. Laurie Santos and Musical Guest Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely with with Matt Graff, Mishti, Ann Klein, and Carla Duren in Concert!
Panelists
Co-Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Musical Guest Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely with with Matt Graff, Mishti, Ann Klein, and Carla Duren in Concert!
Saturday Opening Plenary Session
Presenters
White House/US Dept. of Transportation, Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge in Federal Regulations
US Department of Transportation
Saturday Closing Plenary Session - Joint Report Back from Track Leads
Presenters
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Urban Planning
University of California, Irvine
Policy Track: The Joy in Just Policy- Making: Fossil Fuel Organizing in California, the Southeast US and the Caribbean
Track Leads Michael Méndez
Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning and Policy, University of California, Irvine
Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning and Policy, University of California, Irvine
and Nailli Cobo
Environmental Justice Activist and Storyteller
Panelists
Co-Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Economics Track: When the Well Runs Dry: Economics, Finance, and Joy in Water and Mutual Aid
Panelists
Founder and Executive Director
The People’s Justice Council and Alabama Interfaith Power and Light
Associate Professor/Director of the DSU Water Quality Lab
Delaware State University
Governance Track: Grounded Joy: Sovereignty, Land Tenure, Carbon, and the Sacred
Panelists
Evaluation Track: Migration, Displacement and Joy: Evaluation for What Really Matters
Track Lead Tabitha Sookdeo
Director of Community Engagement, Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services
Director of Community Engagement, Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services
Panelists
Geography Track: Climate, Culture, Place, and Joy in the Caribbean
Panelists
Careers in Environmental Justice
Moderated by Kevin Doyle Executive
Executive Director, Office of Career and Professional Development, Yale School of the Environment
Executive Director, Office of Career and Professional Development, Yale School of the Environment
