Join us for an evening of storytelling centred around diff erent intersections on the topic of gender and environmental justice. From issues of migration\, activism\, leadership\, and access to outdoor spaces\ , we will be exploring the various ways in which the effects of environment al (in)justice are shared unequally across the gendered intersectional spec trum.
Inspired by the PechaKucha storytelling format\, we will be joi ned by four wonderful speakers who will each speak to their personal experi ences and share unique insights on the disproportionate effects of environm ental and climate (in)justice on gendered communities. Following our speake rs’ presentations\, audience members will have a chance to directly engage with our speakers through a moderated Q & A.
The Collective fo r Gender+ in Research is excited to bring you this event in collaboration w ith UBC Climate Hub. This event is part of UBC Climate Hub's annual Climate Solutions Showcase. Their typical day-long event has been modified into a year-long event series\, the theme this year is climate change\, race and intersectionality.
Dr. Tar a Cookson
Dr. Tara Cookson is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Polic y and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and an Associate Member of the Geography D epartment. She uses ethnographic and quantitative methods to study how powe r operates in development policy\, with a focus on gender data\, social pro tection\, and care work. Her approach to public scholarship integrates acad emic research\, practice-oriented publications\, and direct engagement with international policy processes.
Dr. Cookson is the author of Unjust Conditions: Women’s Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs (Uni versity of California Press\, Open Access)\, winner of the Globe Book Award (American Association of Geographers)\, the Sarah A. Whaley Prize (Nationa l Women’s Studies Association)\, and a Development Studies Book Award Honor able Mention (International Studies Association). Her research has been pub lished in Antipode\, Gender Place & Culture\, the International Journal of Feminist Politics\, and Global Public Health. She regularly contributes com mentary and analysis to outlets such as Devex\, the Stanford Social Innovat ion Review\, and the Toronto Star.
Dr. Cookson co-founded Ladysmith\, a feminist research collect ive that connects academic scholarship to practitioner problem solving by h elping international organizations collect\, analyze and take action on gen der data. She has collaborated with global development institutions such as UN Women\, the International Labour Organization\, UNICEF\, Global Affairs Canada\, USAID\, Action Against Hunger\, and the OECD-DAC Governance Netwo rk.
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Niki Najm-Abadi is an Iranian migrant settler on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh Na tions. A recent UBC graduate\, Niki spent her time there involved with vari ous grassroots student movements through the Women’s Centre\, Social Justic e Centre\, and Sexual Assault Support Centre. Currently\, she continues to focus on the intersections of race and gender through frontline anti-violen ce work as well as organizing for climate justice with Our Time Vancouver. She is committed to building a feminist\, anti-oppressive\, anti-capitalist \, anti-imperialist\, and abolitionist world through the transformative pow er of relationships and prefigurative organizing.
Myia
Myia Antone is a proud youth from Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)\, with Ukrainian and Norwegia n roots. Growing up in Squamish\, she explored and loved taking care of the land that her ancestors have occupied since time immemorial. She is curren tly a student in an advanced Squamish language program and loves learning t he language her ancestors spoke.
She is a Wilderness First Responder and has led canoe and hiking trips for Indigenous youth around BC and down the Yukon river. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Indig enous Life Sport Academy and learning how to mountain bike\, climb and back country ski!
When she’s not in school\, you can find Myia hiding in t he mountains\, swimming in the ocean\, trying to pet everyone’s dog or fall ing asleep during a movie.
Evelyn
< p>Evelyn Arriagada is a PhD student at the Institute for Resources\, Environment and Sustainabil ity (UBC)\, supervised by Professor Leila Harris. At UBC\, she is a mem ber of EDGES Research Collaborative (Environment and Development: Gender\, Equity and Sustainability).Her research interests include subjective experiences of environmental suffering\, collective action\, and political linkages\, and gender-environment relationships in territorial conflicts. Her PhD thesis will be focused on women’s activism in water struggles in Ch ile. Following a Feminist Political Ecology approach\, she wants to underst and potential shifts in personal identities\, gender dynamics\, and relatio nships with water that women experiment through the process of becoming act ivists. Her Ph.D. program is supported by the Chilean Commission of Science and Technology by its scholarship program “Becas Chile”\, as well as a sup plementary scholarship from the Diego Portales University (Chile).
Ev elyn is an anthropologist and MA in social sciences\, both from the Univers idad of Chile and also MA in Political and Social Sciences\, from the Unive rsitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain). Before joining IRES\, she has worked as an Ass istant Professor and Academic Coordinator at the Sociology Department of th e Diego Portales University (UDP). She is also a researcher at the Observat ory of Social Inequalities UDP (Chile)\, where she co-coordinates a School of Female Leaders in environmental topics and participates in the Grupo de Investigación/Acción por el Agua(Action/Research Group for Water) - an init iative grouping community leaders\, academics\, and NGO members from centra l Chile. Evelyn is also an active member of the Feminist Coordination at SC AC-Chile\, a citizen platform fighting for climate and environmental justic e\, and participates in the Political Ecology working group at the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO).
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Adriana Laurent (she/her) is originally from Honduras\, and is a quee r\, mixed race (half Black/half white) immigrant who is passionate about th e intersections of climate change\, race\, gender and migration. She's been an active member of the climate\, youth and racial justice organizing comm unity for 6 years now. She has helped inform climate policy in the city and developed her own policy proposals on climate change and migration. She al so organized an international mutual aid project for Honduras in November a fter her community was hit by 2 hurricanes. She was a part of the video ser ies ‘Racial Justice is Climate Justice’ with the David Suzuki Foundation.