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Saturday, November 2 • 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Community Resilience: Bridging Economic & Climate Resilience

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Systems of oppression maintain inequities of impact, access, and power. For Black communities and communities of color across the US, this inequity has arisen through the racist impacts of climate change, pollution, access to resources, education, and much more.

In our session, Jacqueline Patterson, Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, will share insights from decades of experience leading on women‘s rights, violence against women, HIV&AIDS, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice. Ms. Patterson will be joined in conversation by Nia Evans, Director of the Boston Ujima Project, and Joyce Clark, Community Health Expert and Environmental and Climate Justice Chair for the New England Area Conference Region II of the NAACP.

What is the connection between confronting climate change and building self-determination and wealth for Black communities? What new finance and economic models are needed for our communities to address the urgency of both the climate crisis and racial inequity? ...Join us to learn from the leadership and insights of three women working to develop innovative and rooted solutions for community resilience at the intersections of climate & economic challenges.

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Since December 2017, Ujima has been organizing the Chuck Turner #BlackTrust Arts & Lecture Series.

Ujima's Director, Nia Evans, speaks to the significance of #BlackTrust: “Like Black Lives Matter, Black Trust is an external and more importantly internal declaration and commitment, and we place it in the lineage of Black Love, Black Excellence, and Black Joy. We are in the midst of a paradigm shift, a reclamation of power in every aspect of our lives. We plan to see our agenda through. Cooperative economics, solidarity economy, economic democracy will become household terms. Relationships will not be transactional or zero sum. Relationships will be organized around and incentivized by mutual benefit and health. We will trust each other. Black Trust.” - Nia Evans, Ujima’s Director
Presenters
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Joyce Clark

Chair, Environmental & Climate Justice Committee, NAACP - New England Area Conference
Joyce Clark is the Program Coordinator for the Center of Clinical Investigation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also on the Boston NAACP Executive Committee, and served for 4 years as the Health Chair for the Boston NAACP Health Committee. She was recently appointed as the... Read More →
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Jacqueline Patterson

Director, Environmental & Climate Justice Program, NAACP
Jacqueline Patterson is the Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. Since 2007 Patterson has served as coordinator & co-founder of Women of Color United. Jacqui Patterson has worked as a researcher, program manager, coordinator, advocate and activist working... Read More →
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Nia Evans

Executive Director, Boston Ujima Project
Nia K. Evans is the Director of the Boston Ujima Project. Her educational background is in the areas of labor relations, education leadership, and policy. Her advocacy includes a focus on eliminating barriers between analysts and people with lived experiences as well as increasing... Read More →

Saturday November 2, 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Room 213
  MBE Special Event, Panel Discussion