In addition to a panel of university leaders, the DC Climate Convergence at Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium will feature Keynote speakers Kari Fulton, Frontline Policy Coordinator for the Climate Justice Alliance, and the co-founder of Third Act and 350.org Bill McKibben.
Kari Fulton is an award-winning Environmental and Climate Justice organizer, advocate, educator, and writer. Her work has been featured in various media including Black Entertainment Television (BET), Teen Vogue, Essence Magazine, and Chinese Global Television Network (CGTN). Fulton serves as the Frontline Policy Coordinator with Climate Justice Alliance, a leading voice for a just transition to a regenerative economy. She is a proud alumna of Howard University (B.A. Communications and Culture) and Georgetown University (Master of Policy Management)
Bill McKibben is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written over a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, and the forthcoming The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened.
In addition to the keynote speakers, a representative from each university will give a 5 minute talk regarding climate focused initiatives on their campus.
University Speakers:
- Dr. Simon Nicholson, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Environment, Community, and Equity, American University
- Dr. Brooks Zitzmann, LCSW and Assistant Professor, The Catholic University of America
- Dan Guilbeault, Director of Sustainability for Campus and Community, Georgetown University
- Dr. Susan Anenberg, Associate Professor of Environmental, Occupational and Global Health, Director of the Climate Health Institute, The George Washington University
- Dr. Shizuka Hsieh, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Program Chair, Trinity Washington University
- Dr. Rubin Patterson, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University
- Dr. Kamran Zendehdel, Acting Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and Resilience, University of the District of Columbia
Registration for Georgetown University community
American University students: contact [email protected] for tickets