Day 1: Speakers and Panels

1:20 – 1:50 pm 
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Dr. Dorceta E. Taylor. Wangari Maathai Professor, Yale University
 

4:50 – 6:00 pm
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Dr. Urooj Raja. Assistant Professor. Loyola University of Chicago.

Dr. Bilal Butt. Professor. University of Michigan.

Dr. Ember McCoy. Postdoctoral Fellow. Pennsylvania State Univ.

2:00 – 3:00 pm 
Room 321, Kroon Hall

Moderator: Nisreen Abo-Sido. Program Manager, Yale University
 

2:00 – 3:00 pm 
Room 321, Kroon Hall

Moderator: Te’Yah Wright. Program Manager, Yale University

2:00 – 3:00 pm 
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Molly Blondell — Ph.D. Student, Yale University.
Food insecurity in ICE Detention Facilities.

Mia Litzenberg — Undergraduate Student, Michigan State University.
Social-Ecological Traps for Indigenous People in the Philippines: Conceptualizing Mangrove Forest Health as a Source of Livelihood.

Alliyah Moore — Ph.D. Student, Howard University.
Black Women Off-Grid Homesteading.

Maysi Marvin — Undergraduate Student, Whitman College.
Artificial Intelligence, Energy Demand, and Environmental Inequalities.
 

2:00 – 3:00 pm 
Room 319, Kroon Hall

Kiera Hale — Undergraduate. Howard University. 
Campus Ecology: Comparative Analysis of Tree Ecosystem Services on College Campuses in Washington, D.C.

Isabella St. John et al. — Master’s Student, University of the Virgin Islands.
Mangroves in the Classroom: Hands-on STEM Education Inspiring Environmental Stewardship in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Marie Caiola — Master’s Student. Columbia University.
Community-Based Participatory Geographic Information Systems: Informing a Long-Term Drinking Water Research Collaboration.

Cristina Mancilla — Master’s Student. University of California – Santa Barbara.
Beyond Outreach: Community-Defined Engagement at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites.

3:05 – 4:20 pm 
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Ashley Richardson — Workforce Consultant.

Dr. Maya Sanyal — Associate Director of International Student Success, Yale University.
 

3:05 – 4:20 pm
Room G01, Kroon Hall 

Fransha Dace. Ph.D. Student. Yale University.
Climate Risk, Neighborhood Vulnerabilities, and Resilience in Chicago.

Ambria McDonald. Ph.D. Student. Yale University.
Understanding the Jackson, Mississippi, Water Crisis: Vulnerabilities and Governance.

Genesis Ibrahim-Balogun. Undergraduate. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (with Porché L. Spence).
Comparing Two Decades of Water Quality Index Values Between Muddy Creek and South Buffalo Creek Watersheds in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Faith Taylor. Ph.D. Student. Yale University.
Extreme Heat and Flooding in Localities with Carceral Facilities: Vulnerabilities of Institutionalized Populations.
 

3:05 – 4:20 pm
Room 319, Kroon Hall

Simón ‘Fime’ de la Fuente. Master’s Student. Univ. of Michigan.
Oro Negro, Agüita de Colonia: Overlaying Stories in Borikén Coffee.

Sofia Jordan et al. Master’s Student. University of Michigan.
Farmers’ Efforts to Build Autonomy and Subvert Extractive Systems.

Dunya Diyadawagamage. Master’s Student. University of Michigan.
Global Biodiversity Metrics

Frances Crable. Ph.D.Student. University of Illinois-Chicago.
How Freshwater is Reshaping Arctic Food Webs and Livelihoods.

3:05 – 4:20 pm
Room 321, Kroon Hall.

Seungyun Lee. Ph.D. Student. Rutgers University.
Imagining Just Futures: Climate Fiction, Book Clubs, and the Politics of Climate Imagination.

Diana Anda. Staff. Diverse Studio & Rise and Rescue.
Rise + Rescue: Micro-Home Campuses as Conservation and Care
Infrastructure.

Natalie Castro. Ph.D. Student. Northeastern University.
Climate Change and Labor: Taking the Pulse of Bluesky Users’ Perceptions.

Dr. Sarah Nahar. Lecturer. University of Michigan.
Anticolonial Arrivants?! Rooting environmental justice in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples as People of the Global Majority living on Turtle Island/Abya Yala.