Ithaca College

Submitted on behalf of the Office of Energy Management & Sustainability

MONDAY, 16 APRIL, 7 PM – TEXTOR 102: Join the Office of Energy Management & Sustainability and the School of Business for a presentation by Anthony Rogers-Wright and Lauren Wiggins titled, “IntersectionALL: The Axiomatic Nexus Between Racial Justice & Climate Change”. This presentation is part of IC Sustainability Week 2018 and was organized in partnership with the School of Business thanks to generous funding provided by President Collado’s Seed Grant. SLI credit is available for students (DW); please register in OrgSync.

About the Speakers

Anythony Rogers-Wright was selected as one of the Grist.org 50 People You’ll Be Talking About in 2016. He has over ten years of policy analysis, community organizing and outreach/advocacy experience. While serving as a policy analyst for various environmental consulting firms in California and Colorado, he specialized in land use, Clean Air Act and environmental justice compliance. He has used his organizing and outreach experience to advocate for a variety of social justice campaigns including affordable health care access, income inequality and civil rights for LGBT citizens. In 2012, Anthony led the effort to make Colorado Health Insurance Cooperative the first health insurance provider in the State’s history to remove transgender health exclusions from all of their policies. In 2016, he acted as a surrogate and policy advisor for the Sanders presidential campaign, and testified on the need for increased action on climate justice to the DNC Platform Committee. He recently left his position as US Coordinator with, The Leap, where he worked to break down single issue silos and inject new urgency and bold ideas into confronting the intersecting crises of our time: climate change, racism and inequality

Lauren Wiggins is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and graduate of Tennessee State University where she majored in Health Science and minored in International Affairs. After graduating Summa Cum Laude, she landed a summer internship with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and Sustainability where she engaged in projects like urban watershed & wildlife assessments and health impact research writing. In the fall of 2016, Lauren was Canvass Director for a team of canvassers who registered over 37,000 people of color to vote in metro Atlanta; shortly after, Lauren became Program Assistant at the Georgia Department of Natural Resources where she facilitated workshops for K-12 educators on water education, certified Atlanta community members in water quality monitoring and collaborated with organizers around the state to coordinate river, lake and stream clean-ups in the state of Georgia. Lauren currently serves as a Digital Organizer for the ACLU’s grassroots organizing arm: People Power, a civil liberty focused network of over 200,000 activists across the nation.

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