"Building Systemic Change: Frontline Women-Led Solutions for Climate Justice" During this event Indigenous, Black, Brown, and frontline women leaders and global advocates addressed multiple

"Building Systemic Change: Frontline Women-Led Solutions for Climate Justice" During this event Indigenous, Black, Brown, and frontline women leaders and global advocates addressed multiple interlocking crises, and presented a diverse array of visions, projects, policy frameworks and strategies based in a climate justice framework, including forest and biodiversity protection, Indigenous rights, food sovereignty, protection of women land defenders, and community-led solutions. This was formal side event hosted as part of the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66). Links and resources shared during the event are available here: https://bit.ly/36FYyyS Speakers included: — Neema Namadamu, Founder, Synergy of Congolese Women’s Associations (SAFECO), and WECAN Democratic Republic of Congo Coordinator, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Monique Verdin (Houma Nation), Director, The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange, and WECAN Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator, USA – Jacqui Patterson, Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project, USA – Melina Laboucan-Massimo (Lubicon Cree), Co-founder and Senior Director, Indigenous Climate Action, and Founder, Sacred Earth Solar, Canada – Helena Gualinga (Kichwa), Environmental and Indigenous Rights Defender, WECAN Young Women Project Lead, Ecuador –Moderation and comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN Executive Director, USA The voices, analysis and leadership of global women, feminist and gender diverse leaders are critical to the years ahead, as we work collectively and urgently to build the resilient and just future we know is possible.

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Cherri Foytlin, BOLD Louisiana Faith Gemmil, REDOIL Alaska Monique Verdin, United Houma Nation Speak out on the recently announced 5 year off-shore drilling plan by the Obama Administration. To

Cherri Foytlin, BOLD Louisiana Faith Gemmil, REDOIL Alaska Monique Verdin, United Houma Nation Speak out on the recently announced 5 year off-shore drilling plan by the Obama Administration. To read the response by the grassroots groups in the Gulf coast please read here: https://anothergulf.com/2016/11/18/dear-president-obama-love-the-gulf/

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Leading Voices: Sustainability and Higher Education, Dartmouth

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