Changing Climate: The Role of Environmental Justice

Changing Climate: The Role of Environmental Justice
A Conversation with Rhiana Gunn-Wright

February 10, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 7pm

Please join us on Feb. 10 as we discuss meaningful climate policy and environmental justice reform. In this conversation, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Director of Climate Policy at the Roosevelt Institute and an architect of the Green New Deal, will speak to:

- Why climate policy must include environmental justice
- Why climate must be part of our post-COVID economic recovery
- Opportunities for the Biden administration to tackle climate change and environmental justice.

Moderated by Sikina Jinnah, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at UC at Santa Cruz.

Welcome and opening remarks by Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.

Event sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation. If you have disability-related needs, please contact the institute at [email protected]. The event will include closed captioning.

Register for this free event at: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events