Meet the Panelists for the Paths to Climate Justice Globe Mean solar day Panel

Tom Goldtooth

Tom Goldtooth

Since the tardily 1980's, Tom has been involved with ecology related issues and programs working within tribal governments in developing indigenous-based environmental protection infrastructures. Tom works with indigenous peoples worldwide. Tom is known as one of the ecology justice motility grassroots leaders in Northward America addressing toxics and health, mining, energy, climate, water, globalization, sustainable development and indigenous rights problems. Tom is ane of the founders of the Durban Group for Climate Justice; co-founder of Climate Justice At present!; a co-founder of the U.S. based Environmental Justice Climatic change initiative and a fellow member of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Alter that operates as the indigenous caucus inside the United Nation Framework Convention on Climatic change. Tom is a policy adviser to indigenous communities on environmental protection and more recently on climate policy focusing on mitigation, adaptation and concerns of false solutions. IEN's Executive DirectorTom B.K. Goldtooth was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 2015.

Sonia Guajajara (Guajajara Indigenous Peoples), General Coordinator of the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB, Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil)

Sônia Bone Guajajara

Sônia Bone Guajajara

Sônia Bone Guajajara is the Executive Coordinator for the Joint of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), Sônia Guajajara comes from the Araribóia Indigenous Land of the Guajajara people. She graduated in Arts and Nursing, apart from being a specialist in Special Education by the State Academy of Maranhão. She was vice-presidential candidate in the 2018 Presidential Elections and is involved as a coordinator of the organizations and articulations of the indigenous peoples of Maranhão (COAPIMA) and of the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB). In 2015, she received the Gild of Cultural Merit from the Federal Government, through the Ministry building of Culture.

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action

Eriel Deranger

Eriel Deranger

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger has an extensive work history including working for the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, TakingITGlobal, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club Canada, Indigenous Environmental Network and working directly with her First Nation, the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. Eriel'southward work history includes participation at the international level with the Un International Indigenous Youth Conclave, Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate change and the North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus. She has besides served as an advisor to many different organization's boards including: the Uk Tar Sands Network, the Tar Sands Solution Network, Continue it in the Ground network, and most recently on the lath of Bioneers. Through her piece of work with the Ecology Justice movement, Eriel has been deeply involved in social justice and anti-oppression trainings/workshops, conference facilitation, and public speaking. These have been central to developing strategy and drafting numerous declarations including the Anchorage Announcement, Continue It In The Ground Proclamation, and organizing the internationally renowned Tar Sands Healing Walk. Eriel's organizing has pulled together powerful social movement vehicles in an intersectional motion framework that has resulted in the emergence of one of the most powerful visible Proceed it in the Ground campaigns on the planet, the ethnic tar sands entrada. With her Nation and relatives in the Athabasca, Peace River, and Cold Lake region, they accept shone a light on the nearly controversial fossil fuel battlegrounds and on the environmental racism of the Canadian government and the oil sands sector. Presently Eriel is the driving strength of Indigenous Climate Action, a burgeoning network to support Indigenous Climate Leadership.

Dali Ángel Pérez (Zapotec), Youth Coordinator of CIARENA, A.C. (Oaxaca, United mexican states), co-chair of the Global Indigenous Caucus and coordinator of the Ruby de Jóvenes Indígenas de Centroamérica y México (Network of Indigenous Youth from Mexico and Primal America)

Dali Perez

Dali Perez

Dalí Ángel Pérez is the coordinator of the Commission for Indigenous Youth and Children of the Indigenous Women Organization for CIARENA. She as well coordinates the organizational processes of the Indigenous Youth Network as part of the Alliance of Indigenous Women of Fundamental America and Mexico. She works with women, youth, and girls as an indigenous defender, providing training, counseling, psychological and legal support in cases of violence. Through her work, she promotes customs norms of her native peoples to know and recognize the rights of women to participate and influence decisions. This way, she seeks to transform the reality that she is living. Outside of her communities, she seeks the creation of full and effective protective mechanisms for indigenous advocates and youth in accordance with their culture and identity.The panel volition be chastened past

Leonardo E. Figueroa Helland, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, Milano School of Policy, Direction and the Environment, The New Schoolhouse

Leonardo Figueroa Helland

Leonardo Figueroa Helland

Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, works at the intersection of diverse disquisitional paradigms to study how ethnic knowledges combine with various transformative approaches to address ecology challenges, climate crises and social injustices. His research triangulates political ecology, global studies, complex ecologism, world-systems environmental, ecofeminism, and intersectionality with indigenous and decolonial studies to clear systemic alternatives that embody social, environmental, climate, and global justice. His writings address themes similar global environmental politics and policy, indigeneity and decolonization, coloniality and ecological imperialism, gendered economies and socioecological reproduction, posthumanism and biocultural diversity, agroecology and sustainable nutrient systems, social movements and prefigurative politics, energy geopolitics and energy transitions, and global migrations.Before coming to The New School, he chaired the Section of Politics, Justice & Global Studies at Westminster College (Salt Lake City, Utah), where he as well taught in the MA in Community Leadership, the Environmental Studies programme, and the Honors College. While at Westminster, he launched the Global Studies program and its annual conference on "Global Crises, Global Change". He is too co-convener for the Latin American Observatory of the Humanities for the Environment.His latest writings can be found in the Journal of Globe Systems Inquiry, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, the volume on Social Movements and Globe-System Transformation, and the forthcoming book on Anarchist Political Environmental. His current projects include a manuscript on Indigeneity and Planetary Politics, an edited volume with Dr. Abigail Perez Aguilera on Ethnic Ecologies.We promise you can join us on April 22nd to hear the stories of these amazing activists and promise you are inspired to learn more about indigeneity and sustainability (and attend the bookish roundtable on this topic on Tuesday, April 23rd). And make sure to check the Tishman Middle Earth Calendar week page for more than bully events.