Radically Imagining Past Legacies and Futures: Black Student Coalition Luncheon with guest speaker Jarre Hamilton from Intersectional Environmentalist

Radically Imagining Past Legacies and Futures: Black Student Coalition Luncheon with guest speaker Jarre Hamilton from Intersectional Environmentalist

(with food from California Tacos & Fresh Juices!)

Event description:

As the Black community has been faced with numerous struggles and successes recently and throughout our entire history, how do we effectively look back on our history with an intersectional lens? This talk will highlight several pivotal moments in time where joy and radically imagining a better future for our community created effective change. Together, we will begin to answer the question: how does our collective history affect how we view our legacy and how we radically imagine our future to look? The talk will also delve into the work that Intersectional Environmentalist does as an environmental justice education organization and intersectionality as a theory deeply rooted in the works of Kimberlé Crenshaw and the Combahee River Collective. A moderated Q+A with Nia Gipson, Coordinator for the Black Student Coalition will follow the talk, along with an open Q+A with luncheon attendees.

Intersectional Environmentalist (IE) is a Black-founded and WOC-led environmental justice education and awareness organization founded in 2020, that has become a leading resource for content and programs that explore environment, culture and identity. IE seeks to shift environmental education, movements, and policy to center environmental justice and the importance of equity in institutional and educational spaces, to ensure a better and safer future for all people, especially those most impacted by the climate crisis.

Speaker bio:

Jarre Hamilton is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and currently oversees research development at IE. Jarre’s work as a certified interpretive guide, environmental educator, and scholar focuses on creating outdoor educational spaces to engage a wide range of public audiences in discussions on science communication and programming, cultural heritage, community engagement, and the environment.