speakers &
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Justice Luís Roberto Barroso
is a Brazilian law professor, jurist, Justice and President of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil, having been nominated to the position by President Dilma Rousseff in 2013. Between 2020 and 2022, Barroso also served as President of the Superior Electoral Court.
Barroso graduated in law from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), holds a Master's Degree in law from Yale University, and a PhD from UERJ. He has done post-doctoral studies at Harvard Law School and he is a professor of Constitutional Law at UERJ.
César Rodríguez-Garavito
is Professor of Clinical Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the founding director of the Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Clinic, the More-Than-Human Rights (MOTH) Program, the Climate Law Accelerator, and the Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE) Program at NYU Law. Professor Rodríguez-Garavito is a field lawyer and an Earth rights and human rights scholar whose work focuses on climate change, international environmental law, Indigenous peoples' rights, and more-than-human rights.
Elisa Morgera
is the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights. She is Professor of Global Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK) and Adjunct Professor in International and European Union Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland. From 2019 to 2024, she was the director of the One Ocean Hub, a Global North/South research collaboration on human rights and the ocean, which connected natural and social scientists, legal experts, artists, and human rights holders and defenders to support fair, inclusive, and transformative decision-making. Previously, she worked with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nations Development Programme in the Eastern Caribbean. In various capacities, she has advised governments and civil society in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific.
(PhD) (Pronouns: He, They, Dyl) works across the fields of education, ecology, and the arts. As such, Dyl works with several tentacles touching the world, as an Educational Sociologist, Political Ecologist, multi-media artist, theatre- and film-maker. Dyl has a transdisciplinary PhD in Environmental Education at the Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, South Africa. He is the co-founder of the public storytelling foundation Empatheatre and works with public storytelling as a mechanism for healing, empathy, meaning-making and fostering inclusive forms of governance in complex social-ecological entanglements. Their areas of research span a wide spectrum, including transgressive social learning, public pedagogy, theatre-based Research, arts-based research, visual anthropology, legal anthropology, queer eco-pedagogy, post-humanism, new materialism, and critical African feminist approaches to co-engaged research. Dyl is most interested in the profound role of connective aesthetics, social sculpture, and 'making' as essential forms of thinking and theorizing, what he likes to call “meaning ∞ making.
Eliana Hernández-Pachón
is a writer and educator from Bogotá, Colombia. She has an M.F. A. in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Cornell University. Her book La Mata (in English, The Brush) won the National Award of Poetry in Colombia in 2020. She is the co-author of Plantas del camino, a book on weeds and healing, and edited the anthology Un florero que se rompe/A Vase that Shatters, which features short stories and poems by members of the Truth Commission of Colombia. She is part of Como un Lugar, a poetry collective that runs an independent press in Buenos Aires and organizes a Latin American poetry festival in NYC.
Jonathan Watts
is an author and journalist based in the Amazon rainforest. He is global environment editor for The Guardian and founder of the Rainforest Journalism Fund and Sumaúma.com.
A veteran foreign correspondent previously based in Tokyo, Beijing, and Rio de Janeiro, Jonathan covered two tsunamis, three earthquakes, one cyclone, two bombings, a G8 conference, two world cups, and three Olympics and interviewed numerous state leaders. He switched to full time environmental reporting while writing the eco-travelogue, When a Billion Chinese Jump. He more recently wrote a biography of the brilliant natural scientist who conceived the Gaia Theory of the Earth as a living organism: The Many Lives of James Lovelock.
Andrew C. Revkin
is an environmental journalist, educator, and author. He has written on climate change for over thirty years, mostly for The New York Times. Andrew has held positions at National Geographic and Discover Magazine and won top awards in science journalism, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship. His published work includes The Burning Season and The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene.
He was also the Founding Director of the Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute. Finally, Andrew is a lifelong musician and performing songwriter.
Genevieve Guenther
is the founding director of End Climate Silence and the author of The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It, which Publishers Weekly calls "a revelatory study" and Bill McKibben has called "a gift to the world." Dr. Guenther advises NGOs, corporations, and policymakers on climate disinformation and communication. She also serves as Expert Reviewer for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and she has spoken about climate change and language in The New Yorker and on CNN as well as to audiences at Duke, Columbia, and Harvard, among other universities.
Erin Robinsong
is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. She is the author of Rag Cosmology (2017) and Wet Dream (2022), both winners of the AM Klein Prize for Poetry. A PhD candidate at Concordia University (Montreal), Erin’s research-creation work focuses on regenerative, relational, and embodied poetics. Her performances include Zone of Exaggerated Dreaming, a solo work set in the abyssal ocean, and collaborative works with Andréa de Keijzer and Hanna Sybille Müller, including This ritual is not an accident; Facing away from that which is coming; and Polymorphic Microbe Bodies. Erin grew up in Coast Salish territory, on Cortes Island, Canada.
Cosmo Sheldrake
is a UK-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, live improviser, and field recordist. His music ranges widely from celebratory anthems to soulful elegies to riotous party numbers, to sparse electronic production, to haunting polyphonic songs that have grown out of field recordings of birds, whales, fish, frogs, and fungi, and more. Running through all his work is a belief that the living world is a noisy and musical place with the power to change how we think, feel, and imagine. Together with his human and nonhuman collaborators, Cosmo creates music that speaks to the urgency and possibility of our times. Cosmo has toured internationally with sold-out headline shows across North America, Europe, and Japan. He has composed music for both film and theatre and, in 2015, ran a community choir in Brighton, UK.
In 2020, he released Wake Up Calls on his label Tardigrade Records, featuring tracks composed entirely from recordings of endangered British birds. In 2023, Cosmo released Wild Wet World, an EP that is an homage to the ocean. His new album, Eye to the Ear was released on April 12, 2024.