9:30-9:45 | Introduction and Welcome from the Student Leaders and Black Students Demanding Change |
10:00-10:45 | Session 1 Attend one of the following workshops: Environmental Justice After the Election The Flint Water Crisis Inequality in Green Spaces Women Fighting for Environmental Justice Bees, Pesticides, and Food Security in Urban Spaces NYC’s Climate Refugees Engaging Communities in Advocacy Environmental Justice Case Studies from NYC |
10:45-11:00 | Break |
11:00-11:45 | Session 2 Attend one of the following workshops: Accessing Nature in NYC Chocolate Production and Child Labor Sustainable Access to Food Sources Inside and Outside Mobilization Tactics Urban Agriculture as Social Change in NYC COVID 19 and Environmental Racism in Cancer Alley Environmental Injustice and Latinx communities |
11:45-12:00 | Break |
12:00-12:30 | Keynote Speaker Tensie Whelan: Director of the Center for Sustainable Business at NYC and Founder of the Rainforest Alliance |
12:30-1:00 | Lunch |
1:00-2:00 | Thematic Conversations and Creating an Environmental Justice Plan Themes include: NYC Environmental Justice Problems and Solutions COVID 19 Conservation versus Colonialism Environmental Justice After the Election Mobilizing School Communities Food Justice Supply Chains Climate Refugees Open Conversations |
2:00-2:15 | Closing Remarks |
Workshops will be organized by students from PolyPrep Country Day School, Grace Church School, The Brearley School, The Spence School, The Masters School, Greenwich High School, and Greenwich Country Day School. Other workshop organizers include representatives from 350NYC, WE ACT, and NY Sunworks.