We are excited to share that this vital conversation convenes a powerhouse lineup of community leaders, mayors, scientists, researchers, and journalists. Across three dynamic panel conversations, we’ll examine the collision of technology, energy, and democracy; the rapid expansion of AI data centers; the legacy of nuclear weapons; the toll of these developments on Indigenous communities, communities of color, and rural areas; and the affordability crisis and what it will take for everyday people to build power and shape real solutions.
Together, these conversations connect today’s most pressing challenges to a larger question: How do communities organize and build power within democratic structures when government and industry leave them behind?
AI’s Hidden Toll
- LaTricea Adams, President & CEO, Young, Gifted & Green, Memphis
- Manish Bapna, President & CEO, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC
- Mayor Kate Gallego, City of Phoenix
Tishman Auditorium, The New School
Moderator
- Adam Mahoney, National Climate and Environment Reporter, Capital B News, New Orleans
Nuclear Legacy: Mapping Local Impacts
- Lilly Adams, Co-Creator, US Nuclear Impacts Map, Brooklyn, New York
- Moñeka De Oro, Co-Executive Director, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance, Guam/Guåhan
- Leona Morgan (Diné), Indigenous Community Organizer and Anti-Nuclear Activist, Diné No Nukes, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Moderator
- Sharon Weinberger, Editor-in-Chief, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Washington, DC
Power in Our Hands: Solutions for an Affordable, Just Future
- Dr. Ana Isabel Baptista, Associate Professor of Environmental & Climate Justice at the Parsons School of Design and Director, Tishman Environment & Design Center at The New School, New York
- Dr. Gretchen Goldman, President & CEO, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
- Bill McKibben, Author, Educator, Activist, and Founder, Third Act & 350.org, Vermont
- Mayor Michelle Wu, City of Boston
Moderator
- Garrison Hayes, Correspondent, Mother Jones, Nashville