Join WECAN at #ClimateWeekNYC for “Women Building a Resilient World: Implementing a Just Transition and Fossil Fuel Phaseout!”
🗓️ Wednesday, September 23 🕔 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Eastern Time, doors open at 4:30 PM Eastern Time 📍 In-person event 🏙️ 307 West 38th St, New York, NY – Luma Studios, Studio 1505 🔗 RSVP today! 👉 https://luma.com/ZCXTLKLU 🖊️ Registration is required, and seats are first come, first serve.
During this event, frontline women, Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and climate justice advocates will come together to explore the bold actions and solutions needed to accelerate a Just Transition and an equitable phaseout of fossil fuels.
Speakers to date include: ✨ Ambassador Ilana Seid, Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Permanent Representative of Palau to the United Nations, Republic of Palau ✨ Bárbara Tupinikim, Bem Viver Coordinator, National Association of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), Brazil ✨ Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation), Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator, Turtle Island/United States ✨ Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation), President of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA), Founder of The Woven Project, Turtle Island/Canada ✨ Jacqueline Patterson, Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project, Turtle Island/USA ✨ Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa), Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, WECAN Coordinator in Ecuador, Spokeswoman for Mujeres Amazonicas, Ecuador ✨ Secretary Puyr Tembé (Tembé), First Secretary of State for Indigenous Peoples of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, and Co-founder of National Association of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), Brazil ✨ Tzeporah Berman, Chair, Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, Canada ✨ With moderation and comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA
