Re-Locate: Stories of Climate Displacement—from Kivalina, Alaska, to Humboldt Bay

Start: 2024-05-20 19:00:00 UTC Pacific Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00)

This is a virtual event

Speaker

Jen Marlow is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Law in the Department of Environmental Science and Management (“ESM”) at Cal Poly Humboldt. Prior to joining Cal Poly Humboldt, Jen worked as Executive Director of Three Degrees Warmer, a climate justice nonprofit that she co-founded;  and was curator of Re-Locate, a transdisciplinary research collective partnering with Kivalina, Alaska, to support community-led and culturally specific village relocation planning. In Humboldt she founded the 44 feet project.

Talk Description
Climate change is altering how many of us experience home and how we envision its future. In this talk, Jen Marlow will share stories, images, failures, and insights from her work supporting the people of Kivalina, Alaska, an Inupiat village, to lead their own preemptive relocation off a barrier island in the Chukchi Sea. She will connect her work in Kivalina to the origins and efforts of 44 Feet, a local project to bring awareness about Humboldt's perilous nuclear waste disposal site.

Co-sponsors: EPIC, HUUF Climate Action Campaign, Humboldt Friends, Humboldt Waterkeeper, Northcoast Environmental Center, Temple Beth El, Schatz Energy Research Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, Friends of the Eel River.


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Co-sponsors: EPIC, HUUF Climate Action Campaign, Humboldt Friends, Humboldt Waterkeeper, Northcoast Environmental Center, Temple Beth El, Schatz Energy Research Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, Friends of the Eel River.