Plenary 8
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Virtual Speakers
Research Social Scientist, USDA Forest Service
My research explores the dynamics of civic stewardship, environmental governance, and sustainability policymaking--with a particular emphasis on issues of social and environmental justice. I create transdisciplinary spaces of collaboration between land managers, scientists, artists...
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Executive Director, CR-Network Ghana
Administrator, development communication specialist, environmental activist and sustainable development advocate with over 20 years of working experience, based in Accra, Ghana.
President, CEO, Canadian Urban Institute
Mary is President and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute (www.canurb.org). Animpassioned civic leader with diverse experience in the business, government, not-for-profitand philanthropy sectors in Canada and the US for over 30 years, Mary has been a steadyadvocate and champion for...
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Principal, Arquitectura y Paisaje - Fundación Cerros de Bogotá
Delicate activist at Cerros de Bogotá (www.cerrosdebogota.org), urban ecology designer, Pablo and Gabriela´s mother. Goat cheese producer. Love to dance salsa.Bogotá-based activist, a leader in socio-ecological issues, architect, and designer renowned for her designs in urban...
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Director of Catalytic Communities
Theresa Williamson, Ph.D. is a city planner, community organizer, environmentalist and founding executive director of Catalytic Communities, an award-winning NGO providing strategic support to Rio de Janeiro’s favelas since 2000. She is an advocate for the recognition of favelas...
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Professor of Development Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
David Simon is Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published extensively on many dimensions of urbanisation and urbanism, the development-environment interface, and the interrelationships between theory, policy and practice. From 2014-19...
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Artists
Artist & Educator, The Black Studies Podcast
I am a Black visual artist with a practice combining drawing, installation, printmaking, costume, storytelling, performance and micro-activism. My projects explore and celebrate the ways in which people decipher experience, belonging, create and maintain culture and senses of self...
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Friday April 26, 2024 09:00 - 10:30 EDT
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