Book Talk & Community Panel Discussion

Start: Tuesday, April 18, 2023• 6:00 PM

End: Tuesday, April 18, 2023• 7:30 PM

Join Climate Action Rhode Island (CARI) and Racial and Environmental Justice Committee (REJC) for an evening of discussion with Brianna Craft, author of Everything That Rises: A Climate Change Memoir. Guest panelists April Brown, educator, artist, ordained minister, and Director of the REJC and Dannie Ritchie, Family Physician and founder of Community Health Innovations, will engage with the author in a discussion of how climate activism and race intersect in the United States.

This will be an in-person event and will available for virtual attendance on Zoom.
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Author Brianna Craft

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brianna Craft is a senior researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). Craft works to further equity in the United Nations’ climate change negotiations for the world’s poorest countries, which have done the least to cause the climate crisis but are the most vulnerable to its impacts. Based in London, she researches climate diplomacy, taking specific interest in the Paris Agreement and provisions to develop and transfer technology. Craft holds a master’s degree in environmental studies from Brown University in addition to a bachelor’s degree in architectural studies and minors in urban design and planning, and environmental studies from the University of Washington.

ABOUT THE EVENT HOSTS

The Racial and Environmental Justice Committee (REJC)

The Racial and Environmental Justice Committee is a critical part of the Equity in Sustainability Providence Initiative. The REJC is made up of community members and local government officials working together to integrate voices and concerns of our communities into City decision-making through the Office of Sustainability. This initiative comes from the desire to shift the structures that have contributed to inequities based on race in Providence.

The REJC is the result of a partnership between the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, Groundwork Rhode Island, and the City of Providence’s Office of Sustainability. This project team established the Racial and Environmental Justice Committee (REJC), made up of Black, Indigenous, and people of color representing communities living at the frontlines of environmental racism in Providence.

Climate Action Rhode Island (CARI)

CARI is a grassroots activist group of concerned citizens working to build the climate movement in Rhode Island. An affiliate of 350.org, CARI is fighting for 100% renewable energy, a clean and sustainable earth, and environmental justice for all.

Science tells us that to keep Earth livable, we need urgent political action to end the fossil fuel era. Such action becomes possible only when a mass movement of citizens arises to demand it. CARI is helping to build this movement in Rhode Island. Join us to help save our collective future.

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