Climate Change & Environment
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
Kishore Rao is Deloitte鈥檚 global consulting sustainability and climate leader, focused on government and public sector clients.
Astrid Puentes Ria帽o is a lawyer with more than two decades of experience in environmental law, human rights and climate change, and the intersection of these, with a perspective of climate justice, diversity, equity and inclusion- When Kera Sherwood-O鈥橰egan was young, her parents gathered the pito (umbilical cord) that had nurtured her in the womb, and, per tradition, buried it on sacred coastal grounds in Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand, alongside the remains of her ancestors.
- For Yeb Sa帽o, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia.
- Climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye first experienced the impacts of climate change before she even knew what the term meant.
Walter Vergara is a climate specialist with longstanding interests in a variety of climate adaptation and mitigation topics.
On Dec. 7, 2005, Canadian-born mother and grandmother Sheila Watt-Cloutier filed a 163-page petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights arguing that the impacts of climate change violated the 鈥渇undamental human rights鈥 of Indigenous Inuit people like her across the Arctic.
Julieta Martinez is a climate justice and gender equity youth activist. Her work focuses on girls鈥 education as a climate solution, since the climate crisis is not gender neutral.
Stephanie Lamma Ewi obtained a master鈥檚 degree in natural resource and environmental management from the University of Buea, spearheading research and development for 9 years as an environmental and climate justice advocate in rural communities of Cameroon.