Day 1: Speakers and Panels

1:05 – 1:50 pm 
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Moderator: Dr. Rene Almeling — Professor. Yale University. 

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

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

Moderator: Dr. M’Lis Bartlett — Lecturer. University of Michigan. 

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

Dr. Bilal Butt — Professor. University of Michigan.

Dr. Ember McCoy — Postdoctoral Fellow. Pennsylvania State University.

1:55 – 3:00 pm 
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall

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

1:55 – 3:00 pm 
Room G01, Kroon Hall

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

1:55 – 3:00 pm 
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Moderator: Sarah Rosenthal — Master’s Student. Yale University. 

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

Mia Litzenberg — Undergraduate Student. Michigan State University.
The Last Ecological Front: Exploring Social-Ecological Traps Through Indigenous Adaptation and Preservation in the Philippines.

Amy Podraza — Ph.D. Candidate. Vanderbilt University.
The Need for Standardized Emergency Management Definitions to Improve Communication and Community Outcomes.

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

1:55 – 3:00 pm 
Room 24, Sage Hall

Moderator: Helena Souffrant — Master’s Student. Yale University.

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

Isabella S. St. John — 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

Moderator: Sonya Forrester — Assoc. Dean of Student Affairs and Community Engagement. Yale University.

Ashley Richardson — Workforce Consultant.

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

3:05 – 4:20 pm
Room G01, Kroon Hall 

Moderator: Terry Ogawa — Program Manager. Yale University.

Genesis Ibrahim-Balogun — Undergraduate Student. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State Univ. (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. Candidate. Yale University.
Compounding Crises in U.S. Correctional Facilities: Natural Technological (NaTech) Events, Environmental Hazards, and Natural Disasters.

Brandon Lewis — Ph.D. Candidate. Yale University.
Indoor Air Pollution in the Accra Metropolis: PM_2.5 and NO₂ Exposure and Household Characteristics.

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.

3:05 – 4:20 pm
Bowers Auditorium. Sage Hall. 205 Prospect Street.

Moderator: Katherine Escalante — Master’s Student. Yale University. 

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

Sofia Jordan — 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 24, Sage Hall.

Moderator: Dr. Robert Javonillo —  Associate Research Scholar. Yale University.

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

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.