It's not a joke — at our Can Geo Talk on April 1 we'll be joined by Ingrid Waldron, Alexandra Morton and Megan Leslie for a conversation celebrating women in the environmental industry.
Hosted by environmental journalist Aliya Jasmine, we'll discuss passion, racism, overcoming obstacles and the people who help women rise up.
Meet the panelists:
Dr. Ingrid Waldron is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University and the Executive Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project), which is investigating the socio-economic, political, and health effects of environmental racism in Mi’kmaw and African Nova Scotian communities. Dr. Waldron is also leading other studies and projects on climate change in African Nova Scotian communities, the impact of COVID-19 on the African Nova Scotian communities in the Prestons, and mental illness and help-seeking in Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities.
Megan Leslie is the president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund Canada. Prior to joining WWF, Megan was a Member of Parliament and represented Halifax for two terms. As a passionate environmentalist, she was proud to assume the roles of environment critic for the Official Opposition, and vice-chair of the government committee on environment and sustainable development. Megan is the proud recipient of a honourary degree from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax and is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She holds a BA in social and political thought and history and a certificate in refugee migration studies from York University, and also holds a LL.B. from Dalhousie University.
Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate 30-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. She is a field biologist who became an activist who has done groundbreaking research on the damaging impact of ocean-based salmon farming on the coast of British Columbia. In 1984, she moved to the remote B.C. coast, aiming to study the language and culture of wild orca clans, but soon found herself at the heart of a long fight to protect the wild salmon that are the province's keystone species. She has co-authored more than 20 scientific papers on the impact of salmon farming on migratory salmon and has been key to many legal and protest actions against the industry, including the recent First Nations-led occupation of salmon farms on the Broughton.
Our host, Aliya Jasmine, is an award-winning TV host & producer, who received her Masters degree in environmental journalism from the university of Southern California. She is a Fellow of The Royal Canadian Geographic Society, on the Board of Directors for Nature United, and co-founder of the environmentally-focused creative think tank, Lili Media & Design Lab. You likely recognize her from years of hosting prime time shows for NBC News in Los Angeles, Discovery Channel, and MTV Canada.
Join us on Thursday, April 1 at 8:30 P.M. EST for this panel of accomplished women. The panel will be livestreamed on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, and will remain available to watch after the live event. Registration is not required.
Our panelists will happily take questions following their discussion. Questions can be sent in advance to haggert@canadiangeographic.ca. |
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