Thomas J. Dodd Center hosted a lecture about climate change. Mithika Mwenda, executive director of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance was the speaker. File Image/The Daily Campus.
Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on poor communities, especially those in Africa, said Mithika Mwenda, executive director of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), at a lecture Monday afternoon. In his lecture, “Building an Enduring Climate Justice Movement: Lessons from Pan African Climate Justice Alliance” at the Thomas J. Dodd Center, Mwenda said climate change is a broad, issue that affects everyone, and all of us have a role to play in addressing it. The lecture was co-sponsored by Global Affairs and the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut
Environmental and Climate Justice in Puerto Rico: Scholarship and Praxis (October 25, 2018)
A Conversation with Ruth Santiago Moderated by Prakash Kashwan.This event, which is open to faculty and graduate students with a deep interest in questions of environmental and climate justice, is co-sponsored by El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies and the Human Rights Institute.
Ruth Santiago is a lawyer and an environmental justice advocate who works with Comité Dialogo Ambiental, Inc., a community group for volunteer residents primarily from Salinas and Guayama, in southeastern Puerto Rico. Read more about Ruth’s work here.
Climate Justice: Conversations Across Barriers and Borders (April 20, 2018)
UConn's "Metanoia on The Environment" events continue at the Dodd Center with a presentation by Dr. Prakash Kashwan of the political science department on April 20th, 2018. The presentation included interviews with climate justice activists from all over the globe, including Monamie Bhadra, S.P Udayakumar, Roberto Thomas, and a panel of three UConn students: Wawa Gather, Rebecca Kaufman, and Evan Fritz. (Judah Shingleton/The Daily Campus)
Climate change experts and University of Connecticut students spoke on defining and solving climate change inequality at “Climate Justice: Conversations Across Barriers and Borders” on Friday. The event, part of UConn’s spring 2018 Metanoia on the Environment, was moderated by UConn political science professor Dr. Prakash Kashwan and featured a discussion from multiple climate change experts, along with UConn students Rebecca Kaufman, Wawa Gatheru and Evan Fritz.