New Voices

New Voices on Climate Change is an innovative initiative of Global Justice Ecology Project, the goal of which is to broaden the climate debate by amplifying the voices of peoples around the world who are already being impacted by climate change. In doing so, the initiative will:

1) Empower peoples and communities already being impacted by climate change by promoting their stories throughout the world.
2) Empower people to become active in the climate movement by humanizing and personalizing climate change, which is otherwise an often daunting, disempowering and abstract problem.

New Voices on Climate Change is funded through generous grants from the New Visions Foundation and the Rachel and Ben Vaughan Foundation.

Photo On Home Page: Fiu Mataese Elisara, Executive Director of Ole Siosiomaga Society in Samoa, speaks out against the exclusion of Indigenous Peoples from the official climate negotiations during a speak out protest at the 2007 UN Climate Convention in Bali, Indonesia. GJEP helped to organize this protest, which received international media attention. This protest was the origin of GJEP's New Voices on Climate Change initiative. Photo: Petermann/ GJEP-GFC

Contact: Hallie Boas, New Voices Coordinator
Ph: +1 415-336-6590
Email: newvoices@globaljusticeecology.org

Speakers Directory:

Blessing Karumbidza

South Africa / Lecturer at University of Kwazulu Natal
Timberwatch Coalition ...
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Camila Moreno

Brazil / Lawyer, researcher
Terra de Direitos...
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Rachel Smolker, PhD.

Research Biologist
Independent...
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Jihan Gearon

U.S. / Native Energy and Climate Campaigner
Indigenous Environmental Network...
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Faith Gemmill

Campaign Organizer
REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands)...
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Anna Pinto

India / Secretary and Programme Director
CORE...
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Jacqueline Patterson

Co-Founder and Coordinator
Women of Color United...
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Fiu Mataese Elisara

Samoa / Executive Director
Ole Siosiomaga Society Incorporated (OLSSI)...
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Ana Filippini

Uruguay / International Secretariat / Coordinator
World Rainforest Movement / Latin American Network Against Monoculture Tree Plantations...
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