New York, NY – On the first night of Climate Week NYC and ahead of the Climate Ambition Summit in New York City, the Adler Hall at The New York Society for Ethical Culture hosted an extraordinary array of effective, committed, inspirational and inter-generational climate communicators gathering in conversation at Up2Us2023: A Better World is Possible.
Here’s the line up:
Scott Z. Burns, award-winning Screenwriter/Director, Apple TV+ 2023 series: Extrapolations, Creator, movie: Contagion, Producer ground-breaking documentary: An Inconvenient Truth, interviewed by journalist Andrew Revkin, Founding Director Communications and Sustainability, Columbia University’s Earth Institute
Dr. Kate Marvel, Climate Scientist & Communicator; Lead Scientist, Project Drawdown; former NASA Scientist, writer and storyteller
Varshini Prakash, Co-founder Sunrise Movement, 2019 TIME Magazine Next Gen Leader and 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 List
Sage Lenier, Founder, Sustainable and Just Future, 2023 TIME Magazine Next Gen Leader, acclaimed Educator
Henk Rogers, Founder & Chair; Blue Planet Alliance, subject of Apple TV+ movie Tetris; Founder & Chair, Blue Planet Energy
Wawa Gatheru, Founder, Black Girl Environmentalist, Rhodes, Truman & Udall Scholar, Storyteller, Climate Justice Advocate
Covering Climate Now, announcement of the 2023 Documentary Award winner
Bill McKibben, Climate Icon: writer, author, activist; Founder 350.org, Third Act, special video message
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