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Climate change is a racial issue. Climate change is a gender issue. Climate change is a generational issue. This crazy year has only made it more so.
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This session is presented by Neste and supported by Burnt Nopal and CapMetro.
Purchase Varshini Prakash’s "Winning the Green New Deal: Why We Must, How We Can” and Ayana Johnson’s “All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis” in our Festival book store here.
Hayhoe is a professor at Texas Tech University, where she is also the director of the Climate Science Center. She has been the lead author for several National Climate Assessments and her research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. Hayhoe has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People and Foreign Policy’s 100 Global Thinkers.
Prakash is the executive director and co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led organization that advocates for political action on climate change. She is the author of “Winning the Green New Deal: Why We Must, How We Can,” published in 2020. Prakash was one of TIME’S 100 Most Influential People and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in 2019, and her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post and BBC.
Bullard is the former dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairs and a distinguished professor at Texas Southern University. Previously, he was the founding director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. Bullard is also an award-winning author and co-founder of the HBCU Climate Change Consortium. In 2019, Apolitical named him one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy.
Johnson is the founder and CEO of Ocean Collectiv, a consulting firm for conservation solutions, and the founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities. Previously, she was executive director of the Waitt Institute and served as a leader of the march for science. Johnson is the author of “All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis,” published in 2020.
