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How do we switch sustainability education from a study of replacements and alternatives to a study of processes and practices? How has sustainability education transformed since its birth? How do we keep education relevant to our current context and new discoveries? What are tools that you heavily rely on to accomplish your climate/sustainability work?
These are some of the questions that a panel of climate and environmental researchers & activists will address at this upcoming panel at UC Berkeley. This event is being organized by the Undergraduate Student Council for the College of Environmental Design.
Speakers
Brian Beveridge
Brian Beveridge has more than 30 years of experience in communications. Beginning as a technical writer, he earned a BA degree in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida. From 1987 to 2004, Mr. Beveridge owned and managed an independent video production company in the Bay Area. He has created marketing programs for Fortune 500 corporations, such as Shell Oil, produced TV programs for the Sports Channel and the San Francisco Giants and written and directed documentary videos for state and local non-profit groups including the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network and the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation. A resident of West Oakland since 1999, Mr. Beveridge joined the struggle for environmental justice in 2003 after personally experiencing the toxic emissions from the Lesaffre Corporation’s Red Star Yeast factory in his neighborhood.
Charisma Acey, Ph.D
Charisma Acey is an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Her work focuses on local and regional environmental sustainability with a focus on poverty reduction, urban governance, environmental justice, food justice and access to basic services. Her recent and ongoing research includes fieldwork in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda exploring sustainable household scale alternative energy solutions and access to basic services such as water and sanitation.
Hossein Ayazi, Ph.D
Hossein Ayazi, Ph.D. is a Policy Analyst with the Global Justice program at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.Across his research, teaching, and program strategy work, he centers the political economy and racial politics of U.S. and global agri-food systems and environmental change, and their relationship to antiracist, anticolonial, and revolutionary-socialist struggles from the 20th century on into the present. Such work is driven by his passion for research-driven community building and organizational transformation in higher education, and on issues of racial, economic, and environmental justice.
Kalina Browne
Kalina Browne (she/her) is the Youth Program Coordinator at People’s Climate Innovation Center. She is focused on Climate Innovation's Young Climate Leaders of Color (YCLC) program and National Association of Climate Resilience Planners program. Her upbringing as an islander from the country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines drives her passion to create equitable climate change solutions that are inclusive of historically underserved communities. Earning her Masters in Coastal Science and Policy in 2022, Kalina blends her academic training with community driven work. Her graduate research focused on Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion within the conservation field. Prior to her studies she worked with Ocean Conservancy’s Climate team as a RAY Conservation Fellow and subsequently returned to work with Ocean Conservancy while completing her Masters this time with their Ocean Justice team focusing on equitable access to ocean resources.
