The Speakers
Sascha Boden
Friday, 3:00 pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/98737478586 Meeting ID: 987 3747 8586
Environmental Action Germany
Sascha Boden is a Project Manager at the Energy and Climate Protection Department of Deutsche Umwelthilfe (Environmental Action Germany) in Berlin, Germany. At his work, he campaigns against new fossil infrastructure such as LNG-terminals and pipelines. Thereby, he also works together with affected communities at the proposed sites of the projects both within German and other countries. Other areas of work include policy work on hydrogen and methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
For Sascha, the climate crisis is inherently an issue of justice, as members of minorities are disproportionally affected by the effects of climate breakdown, yet most emissions are caused by only a small, affluent part of the population. By preventing new fossil infrastructure and making sure set climate targets are not missed, he wants to contribute to preventing the worst effects of climate change that would hit the most vulnerable the hardest. In the process, he tries to make sure that communities affected by infrastructure projects are given a voice wherever and whenever possible.
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Eric Hall
Friday, 3:00 pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/97032106499 Meeting ID: 970 3210 6499
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA scientist Eric S. Hall earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Syracuse University. Hall earned a master’s degree in Business from Webster University and a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University. Hall is working with EPA Region 6 on one research project to track harmful algal blooms during flooding events for emergency responders in the Gulf of Mexico, and on another research project with the United South and Eastern Tribes (USET) to complete a website providing environmental and public health information to 36 Tribal Nations in EPA Regions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6.
Madeline Parker
NC WARN Youth Climate Justice Organizer
Friday, 4:00pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/94395988548 Meeting ID: 943 9598 8548
Madeline Parker is the Youth Climate Justice Organizer for NC WARN, an organization that is pushing Duke Energy to move away from fossil fuels, working In partnership with social justice, environmental, consumer protection, housing, labor and faith allies. Madeline is grateful to have come into the environmental justice field with a position that prioritizes community engagement and youth climate justice advocacy + education.
Dr. Fadhel Kaboub
Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity
Friday, 5:00pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/93902538904 Meeting ID: 939 0253 8904
Fadhel Kaboub is an associate professor of economics at Denison University, and the president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He has held research affiliations with the Levy Economics Institute, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is an expert on Modern Monetary Theory, the Green New Deal, and the Job Guarantee. His work focuses on public policies to enhance monetary and economic sovereignty in the Global South, build resilience, and promote equitable and sustainable prosperity.
Peggy Liu
JUCCCE
Saturday, 9:00am https://duke.zoom.us/j/95193134835 Meeting ID: 951 9313 4835
Peggy Liu is Chairperson of the JUCCCE, a non-governmental organization catalyzing society towards a future where personal and planetary health thrive. Named the "Green Goddess of China" by Chinese press and TIME Hero of the Environment, she travels the world to consult companies and governments on how to catalyze societal-scale change, scale sustainable innovation, and collaborate with China.
Benjamin F. Wilson
Beverage & Diamond
Benjamin F. Wilson is the Chairman of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., the leading law firm in the United States focused on environmental and natural resource law and litigation. He represents major corporations, developers, and municipalities in complex litigation matters involving Clean Water Act enforcement, wetlands development, Superfund and environmental justice matters. He served as the Deputy Monitor for Emissions & Environmental in the Volkswagen AG emissions proceedings and served as the Court-Appointed Monitor for the Duke Energy coal ash spill remediation project. Mr. Wilson has taught Environmental Justice at the Howard University School of Law since 2006. He has lectured on Environmental Justice at law schools across the country, including: Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard Law School, among others.
Saturday 10:00am https://duke.zoom.us/j/95663922780 Meeting ID: 956 6392 2780
John Paul Jose
Fridays For Future
Saturday, 11:00am https://duke.zoom.us/j/92672342148 Meeting ID: 926 7234 2148
Kerala-born John Paul Jose’s journey with environmental activism began when he joined a protest against the Yettinahole project around five years ago. Later, in 2018, John set out to discover what steps India’s politicians were taking to address the climate crisis, as one of the Fridays For Future youth leaders in India. Now 22, he is still a passionate activist, criticising climate action (and the lack of it) from an Indian viewpoint, and especially how global warming affects India’s forests and ecosystems.
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Fred Tutman
Patuxent Riverkeeper
Saturday, 11:00am https://duke.zoom.us/j/93231530767 Meeting ID: 932 3153 0767
Fred Tutman is a grassroots community advocate for clean water in Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway and holds the title of Patuxent Riverkeeper, an organization that he founded in 2004. He lives and works on an active farm that has been his family’s ancestral home for nearly a century. Fred spent nearly 25 years working as a media producer for international telecommunications, including a long stint working with traditional healers in West Africa and coverage of the Falklands conflict in Argentina on a BBC assignment. Fred also teaches and advises in the Graduate Studies program of Goddard College in Plainfield Vermont, as well as at various colleges in Maryland. He is among the longest-serving Waterkeepers in the Chesapeake region and the sole African-American Waterkeeper in the nation.
Christine Folch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Environmental Science and Policy
Saturday, 12:00pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/97686189847 Meeting ID: 976 8618 9847
Christine Folch is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Folch is a scholar of energy politics, natural resources, and environment in Latin America, with an attention to how nature is intertwined with power struggles, national identities, and history. Her new book Hydropolitics: The Itaipú Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America (Princeton University Press, 2019) draws on more than a decade of ethnography among energy elites in Paraguay as well as Brazil as they administer the resources of the world’s largest hydroelectric dam Itaipu Binational (Brazil-Paraguay) to show how electricity is tied up with politics and sovereignty.
As co-director of Duke’s new Amazon Humanities Lab, Folch works on plant-human relationships. She is currently drafting a cultural history of yerba mate, the stimulating beverage popular in southern South America and its lesser-known but equally delightful caffeinated Ilex/holly-family cousins guayusa (Amazonia) and yaupon (southern North America). Her writings on cuisine, culture, and history have appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, and Scalawag.
Jamie Margolin
Zero Hour
Saturday, 12:00pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/97138564125 Meeting ID: 971 3856 4125
Jamie Margolin is an 19-year-old Jewish Colombian-American organizer, activist, author, public speaker, and filmmaker. She is co-founder of the international youth climate justice movement called
Zero Hour that led the official "Youth Climate Marches" in Washington, DC and 25+ cities around the world during the summer of 2018. Zero Hour has over 200+ chapters worldwide and has been a leading organization in the climate movement. Jamie’s the author of a book called "Youth To Power: Your Voice and How To Use It,” which has been translated in many languages and sold all over the world. The book serves as a guide to organizing and activism.
Nikhil Swaminathan
Grist
Saturday, 1:00pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/99841926943 Meeting ID: 998 4192 6943
Nikhil Swaminathan is a science and technology journalist based in Oakland, California, whose work has appeared in Scientific American, Discover, Mother Jones, and Wired. He is currently an Ida B. Wells fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. He is currently the executive director of Grist, a national media outlet focused on climate change and environmental justice.
Lyndsey Gilpin
Southerly
Saturday, 1:00pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/99841926943 Meeting ID: 998 4192 6943
Lyndsey Gilpin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Southerly. Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and now based in Durham, N.C., she is a reporter and editor who has covered climate change, energy, environmental justice all over the U.S. She is currently a JSK Community Impact Fellow through Stanford University, where she's working on a project to bring more environmental and public health coverage to rural communities of color in the Southern U.S.
Her work has appeared in Harper's, Vice, The Daily Beast, CityLab, Undark, High Country News, Columbia Journalism Review, FiveThirtyEight, The Washington Post, Hakai, The Atlantic, Grist, Outside, and InsideClimate News.
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Edgar Virguez
Duke Ph.D student
Saturday, 2:00pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/92478207711 Meeting ID: 924 7820 7711
Edgar Virguez is an energy systems engineer promoting the transition towards a decarbonized electric power system. Understanding the collective effort required to achieve a rapid and cost-efficient energy transition, he pursues a multidisciplinary inquiry-based method to formulate energy-related research questions. Integrating methods from operations research, geospatial analysis, and environmental economics, Edgar´s research contributes to answering critical questions that enable pathways toward sustainable power systems.
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He's a higher-education leader aiming for a truly diverse & inclusive sector. Husband, dad, OES owner, Latino. Pronouns: he/him/his.
Joslin Kehdy
Recycle Lebanon
Saturday, 3:00pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/91613779903 Meeting ID: 916 1377 9903
Following the garbage crisis in Lebanon, Joslin Kehdy quit her work between Beirut and London and founded Recycle Lebanon in 2015. The NGO is a platform to re-pscy’cle the system, from mindset to action, all while raising awareness on the alternatives possible through a circular economy. She pioneered the first zero waste clean ups to sort and recycle, the BalaPlastic movement, transitioning establishments and communities plastic and toxic free, the only cigarette collection and recycling initiative and the Middle East’s first zero waste shop physically mobilising a circular economy through the EcoSouk.
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Dr. Erika Weinthal
Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy
Saturday, 4:00pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/92986294596 Meeting ID: 929 8629 4596
Dr. Erika Weinthal is a Duke Environmental Policy and Public Policy professor, where she specializes in global environmental politics and environmental security with an emphasis in water and energy. Her research spans numerous geographic regions, and she has been honored as the 2017 recipient of the Women Peacebuilders for Water Award because of her work in this field.
Anthony Lanzillo
Maurin Climate Roundtable For Catholic Worker Communities
Saturday, 5:00pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/92772340607 Meeting ID: 927 7234 0607
Anthony (Tone) Lanzillo is a member of Loaves and Fishes Catholic Worker community in Duluth, Minnesota, in addition to being a Co-founder of the Maurin Climate Roundtable for Catholic Worker Communities in the U.S. as well as the coordinator of the Duluth/365 climate initiative and Producer of the Climate>Duluth series on PACT-TV. In addition he writes an ongoing series of columns about climate change for the Reader and Duluth News Tribune.