Watch Session | Land Acknowledgement | Program
Our New Green Deal: A Community-University Working Session for Environmental Justice in the Passaic River Watershed is the first session in a series of virtual work sessions on forging an environmentally equitable Green New Deal and a just transition in the climate change era.
Moderators
Naomi Klein | Author, Activist, and Inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Neil Maher | Environmental Historian, Federated History Department at NJIT and RU-N
Chief Vincent Mann | Water Protector and Community Organizer, Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation Turtle Clan
Maria Lopez-Nunez | Advocate and Organizer, Director of Environmental Justice and Community Development- Ironbound Community Corporation, Newark NJ
Jack Tchen | Public Historian and Director, Clement A. Price Institute, Rutgers University-Newark
Featured Speakers
Francisco Artigas | Director, Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute
Alexandra Chang | Curator and Art Historian; Interim Associate Director, Clement A. Price Institute, Rutgers University-Newark
Anthony Diaz | Co-Founder, Newark Water Coalition
Michael Edelstein | Professor in the Environmental and Sustainability Programs, Director, Institute for Environmental Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Donna Fennell | Professor of Environmental Engineering, Rutgers School of Engineering, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Marleny Franco | Horticulturist and Author of Garden the Organic Way; Owner of Gardening the Organic Way LLC
Lucia Rodriguez Freire | Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering at the John A. Reif, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NJIT
Kim Gaddy | Director, South Ward Environmental Alliance
Wynnie-Fred Victor Hinds | Executive Director, Stepping Stones Resources; Co-Chair of the Newark Environmental Commission
Laurie Howard | Executive Director, Passaic River Coalition
Yvette Jordan | High school History Teacher in Newark Public Schools, Environmental & Social Justice Activist, Founding member of Newark Education Workers Caucus
Kevin Lyons | Supply-chain Environmental Archaeologist, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University- Newark
Jay Meegoda | Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NJIT
Louis E. Prezeau, Jr. | Division Director-Community and Economic Development, La Casa de Don Pedro
Amy Rowe | Agriculture & Natural Resources County Agent II, Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Cooperative Extension
Elliot Ruga | Policy & Communications Director, NJ Highlands Coalition
Gareth Russell | Associate Professor, NJIT, Chair of NJIT Biology Department
Nicky Sheats, Esq., Ph.D. | Director, Center for the Urban Environment John S. Watson Institute For Urban Policy at Kean University; Member of the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance
Chuck Stead | Author and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey
James C. Williams | Director of Racial Justice Policy, Fair Share Housing Center
Judith T. Zelikoff | Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Performers & Artists
Katrina Bello | Visual Artist
Layqa Nuna Yawar | Interdisciplinary Artist and Muralist
Cesar Melgar | Photographer
Anne Percoco | Visual Artist and Sculptor
Michaeline Picaro | Artist, Nurse, and Healer, Clan Mother of the Ramapough Lenape Nation Turtle Clan
Floyd Little Sun | Drummer and Representative for the Wawayanda Territory for Ramapough tribal members; Lead Vocalist of the Spirit of the Mountain Singers
Scribes
The following graduate students will act as scribes during these work sessions, transforming their notes into a "next step" directive that will be shared after the event.
Tugba Altin |Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Global Urban Studies, Rutgers-Newark
Jordan Baldrige | M.A. Student, Department of History, Rutgers University-Newark
Colleen Gutwein O'Neal | M.A. Student, American Studies, Rutgers University-Newark; Photographer & Curator; Adjunct Professor of Photography and Contemporary Art, RU-N
Omanjana Goswami | Ph.D. candidate, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University-Newark
Our Co-Conveners
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Ramapough Culture and Land Foundation
For questions and more information, please contact us at priceinstitute@newark.rutgers.edu
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