Urgent Actions for Environmental Emergencies

3607 Trousdale Parkway,Los Angeles CA 90089

28 April, 2023

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Webinar Livestream: 11.30am - 1pm PT / In-person event at USC: 11am - 1pm PT EVENT SYNOPSIS Leading voices in the youth climate movement discuss the global fight for ocean justice with the 2023 Laureates of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Dr. Daniel Pauly and Dr. Rashid Sumaila. This special event will be moderated by Leah Thomas - also known as Green Girl Leah, an influential environmental activist and author of 'The Intersectional Environmentalist'. Join us for this in-person conversation at the University of Southern California. USC is home of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement – which, in 2023, celebrates its 50th Anniversary. This event will be hosted in-person as well as livestreamed. The location for in-person attendance is below. A light lunch will be served at 11am, with the panel beginning at 11.30am. HOW TO ATTEND Joining Virtually: (Webinar Livestream 11.30am - 1pm PT) Please register via the link below. You will then receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link. https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hQ4c2C6jSUOeFKWtFN_azA Joining In-person: (11am - 1pm PT, at USC) *Note: Attendance is strictly limited. Registration via Eventbrite is essential. TCC 350/351/352 - Franklin Suite 3607 Trousdale Parkway, TCC 425 Los Angeles, CA, 90089 Map here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xQ4kNybhOWT7J7D9NXpLzRL2K24O1ury/view?usp=share_link Parking Instructions: Park in the McCarthy Parking Structure. Tell the attendant that you are attending the 2023 Tyler Intergenerational Panel. EVENT SPEAKERS Panelists: Xiye Bastida – Climate Justice Activist | Student at the University of Pennsylvania Evan Weber – Co-Founder, Sunrise Movement Ray Kiliho – Coordinator - Africa Region, Jane Goodall Roots & Shoots | Jane Goodall Institute - Tanzania Tianna Shaw-Wakeman – Environmental Justice Program Lead, Black Women for Wellness | USC Alumna Dr. Rashid Sumaila – 2023 Tyler Prize Laureate | University Killam Professor and Canada Research Chair, The University of British Columbia, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Dr. Daniel Pauly – 2023 Tyler Prize Laureate | University Killam Professor, The University of British Columbia, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Founder and Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us Moderated by Leah Thomas - also known as Green Girl Leah, an influential environmental activist and author of 'The Intersectional Environmentalist'. EVENT BACKGROUND In February, the 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement – often described as the ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’ – was awarded to two courageous Canadian ocean fisheries experts: ecologist Dr. Daniel Pauly and economist Dr. Rashid Sumaila. On April 28, the Laureates will be in live discussion with youth climate activists, in this special intergenerational panel. MORE ABOUT THE PANELISTS XIYE BASTIDA – CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTIVIST, STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Xiye Bastida is a climate justice activist who is from the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community located in Central Mexico. She is an organizer, author, speaker, and student who is driven to make the climate movement more inclusive and diverse. Xiye grew up in a small town called San Pedro Tultepec. She moved to New York City in 2015 when her parents got a job at the Center for Earth Ethics. Once in New York, Xiye became heavily involved with the existing climate movement. She attended her first United Nations climate conference in February of 2017, in which she was able to bring in Indigenous knowledge into decision making spaces. Her participation led her to win the Spirit of the UN award in 2018. Later, she started organizing with Fridays For Future NYC. Her notable participations include COP25, the United Nations Climate Summit, the Noble Price Summit, Global Citizens (2x), Glamour Women of the Year Awards, TED Countdown Summit, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Harvard University, Verge21, and she will be attending COP26. She gave her first TED Talk in 2020, and is in the TED Youth Advisory Council. She is the opening essayist in the anthology All We Can Save, and has written numerous op-eds. Xiye has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, Teen Vogue, TIME and spoken alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda, Al Gore, Jaden Smith and others. She is currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania where she is studying Environmental Studies with a concentration in Policy. EVAN WEBER – CO-FOUNDER, SUNRISE MOVEMENT Evan Weber is an environmentalist activist, and co-founder of Sunrise Movement, a left-of-center environmentalist advocacy organization notable for promoting the “Green New Deal,” a policy program critics characterize as a “radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy.” Weber previously worked as an assistant campaign director for the New Mexico state affiliate of Environment America, where he supported the election of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) in 2012. He also worked as an outreach director for Pricing Carbon Initiative, an environmental advocacy organization that uses campaigns for a carbon tax in the United States, and participated in the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement. Weber served as co-founder and executive director of Sunrise Movement (formerly U.S. Climate Plan), a left-wing climate policy advocacy organization that is now a part of Sunrise Movement Education Fund. 5 Weber serves as political director and co-founder of Sunrise Education Fund. Sunrise was previously a member organization of Climate Action Network International, a left-of-center environmental policy and activism network. TIANNA SHAW-WAKEMAN – ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PROGRAM LEAD, BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS / USC ALUMNA Tianna Shaw-Wakeman serves as the Environmental Justice Program Lead for Black Women for Wellness. Tianna Shaw-Wakeman holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Master’s in Social Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California where she graduated as the first Black University Valedictorian for the Class of 2021. Currently, Tianna serves as the Environmental Justice Program Lead for Black Women for Wellness where she works to advance the health and well-being of Black women and girls by engaging in community-focused research, empowerment, and advocacy. In addition to this work, Tianna is proud to be a Sydney Harman Polymathic Fellow, Phi Beta Kappa, a Brittingham Social Enterprise Scholar, and a former member of both LA Mayor Garcetti’s Youth Council on Climate Action and the LA City Climate Emergency Mobilization Commission. RAY KILIHO – COORDINATOR, AFRICA REGION JANE GOODALL ROOTS & SHOOTS / JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE (TANZANIA) Ray Paul Kiliho is the Coordinator, Africa Region, for Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots. He is an ardent nature lover and creative artist, a development-Architect with a strong focus on Africa development – working in the field of youth empowerment and development. His focus is to deliver national and regional objectives and ambitions such as Agenda 2030 and Agenda 2063. With a background in Architecture Technology focusing in Green & Resource Efficient structures, his engagement with the ideals of Roots & Shoots for the past two decades has long motivated his work. Ray's two decades as an active member and youth leader within the Roots & Shoots program instilled ideals of care and compassion for the environment, animals, and human communities, sparked by Dr Jane Goodall’s life and work. Roots & Shoots is a core program of the Jane Goodall Institute created by Dr. Goodall more than 30 years ago. It has shaped not only Ray’s career but his personality in general. During his engagement in R&S Tanzania, Ray worked with clubs, communities, and institutions on policy advocacy, nature and land restoration, empowering underprivileged young women and girls, raising awareness about Tanzania's endangered animal species, supporting youth in career development, creating opportunity for youth to engage with decision makers, restoring forests and protecting marine ecosystems among other things. Recently engaged as Coordinator for Roots & Shoots Africa, Ray is now part of the team growing the global programme based on his strong Tanzania experience within Roots & Shoots. In addition to his role with the Jane Goodall Institute, Ray is an active participant in youth-mainstreaming and meaningful development at national and international space, around environmental and social governance, serving as a programs-lead of Tanzania's national youth organization-Vijana Think Tank (VTT), a youth-inclusion-focal at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (SRO-EA), a focal at the Pan-African Youth Union's Climate & Energy Work Group, and a committee member of the Climate Finance & Markets Initiative. DR. DANIEL PAULY (2023 TYLER PRIZE LAUREATE) Daniel Pauly is the founder and Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia. Born in France and raised in Switzerland, Pauly studied in Germany, where he acquired a doctorate in fisheries biology, zoology and physical oceanography from the University of Kiel. He has spent much of his four decades of research documenting the rapid decline of marine and fresh-water fish. He gained worldwide recognition for popularizing the term ‘Shifting Baselines’ – which explains how knowledge of environmental declines fades over time, leading to a misguided understanding of change on our planet. Since 2010, he is the world’s most-cited fisheries scientist. DR. RASHID SUMAILA (2023 TYLER PRIZE LAUREATE) Rashid Sumaila is a University Killam Professor and Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, at the University of British Columbia. With roots in Nigeria and Ghana he received his B.Sc. degree (Quantity Surveying) from the Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria), and his Ph.D.(Economics) from the University of Bergen (Norway). Sumaila’s research focuses on bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, marine protected areas, illegal fishing, climate change, marine plastic pollution, and oil spills. The question of how to “bequeath a healthy ocean to our children and grandchildren, so they too can have the option to do the same” – is what drives his life’s work. ABOUT THE TYLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT Established in 1973, the Tyler Prize is awarded to recognize the scientific contributions and leadership of environmental problem solvers, and to inspire others to follow in their footsteps. Recipients of the Tyler Prize are awarded with USD$250,000. In 2023, the Tyler Prize celebrates its 50th year anniversary. During its fifty-year history, the Tyler Prize has recognized passionate environmental science dedication across a spectrum of environmental concerns, including environmental policy, environmental health, air and water pollution, ecosystem disruption, loss of biodiversity, population, energy, and food resources. Follow: @TylerPrize on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.