Dr. Seema Yasmin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting in 2017 for her reporting on a mass shooting. As a former officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she was deployed as strategic advisor to foreign governments, won awards from the United States Public Health Service for leading epidemic investigations, and was principal investigator for scientific studies on disease outbreaks and their long-term consequences.
Virtual
In this session, Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker provides insight into Indigenous knowledge systems which offer opportunities for building resilience to socioecological shocks, including climate effects and pandemics. Dina calls for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism. Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues. Gilio-Whitaker is the author of two books; the most recent award-winning As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock. Cheryl Savageau (Abenaki) is the author of three collections of poetry, Mother/Land, Dirt Road Home, which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Home Country. In 2020, she published Out of the Crazywoods, an autobiography. She graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and studied writing at the People’s Poets and Writers Workshop in Worcester. Currently, she is the editor of Dawnland Voices, a journal of indigenous voices from New England.
Virtual
Virtual
Theresa Cardinal Brown, Roberto Gonzales, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Daniel Tichenor, Jia Lynn Yang, and Julia Preston
John F. Kennedy Library
Ijeoma Oluo
Virtual
Dr. Paul Arthur Berkman is a renowned science diplomat. In 2010, he co-directed the first formal dialogue between NATO and Russia on environmental security in the Arctic Ocean. Most recently, he was awarded the Fulbright Arctic Chair 2021-2022. Professor Berkman founded the first Science Diplomacy Center in an academic institution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, directed through EvREsearch LTD, where he is CEO.
Virtual
Museum of Fine Arts
Anthea Butler, EJ Dionne, Patrick Lacroix, Emmett Price, Simran Jeet Singh, and Margery Eagan
John F. Kennedy Library
Lauret Savoy
Virtual
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Abraham Verghese, Tobias Wolff, and Alan Price (moderator)
John F. Kennedy Library
For the latest information regarding each event please contact the presenting organization.