David Abel

David Abel

David Abel is an award-winning reporter, documentary filmmaker and professor of journalism who covers environmental issues, mainly focused on climate change, for The Boston Globe.

Kumi Naidoo

South African activist Kumi Naidoo named keynote speaker

Aug. 31, 2022

Kumi Naidoo, a South African activist, Rhodes scholar and former executive director of Greenpeace International, will deliver a keynote speech at this year’s Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in Boulder, Colorado.

Kumi Naidoo

Kumi Naidoo

Kumi Naidoo is a South African-born human rights and climate activist.

Tia Kennedy with her dog wading in stream

Why this Indigenous rights activist does not take clean water for granted

Across Canada, millions of people don’t think twice when turning on the tap. But Indigenous activist Tia Kennedy never takes a glass of water for granted.

Walter Vergara

Walter Vergara

Walter Vergara is a climate specialist with longstanding interests in a variety of climate adaptation and mitigation topics.

Mercedes García Pérez

Mercedes García Pérez

Mercedes García Pérez is the head of global issues and innovation at the Delegation of the European Union to the USA.

Julieta Martinez

Julieta Martinez

Julieta Martinez is a climate justice and gender equity youth activist. Her work focuses on girls’ education as a climate solution, since the climate crisis is not gender neutral.

Tia Kennedy

Tia Kennedy

Tia Kennedy is an Indigenous rights activist and youth leader in her community.

Michael Kotutwa Johnson

Michael Kotutwa Johnson

Michael Kotutwa Johnson is a member of the Hopi Tribe in Northern Arizona.

Florina Lopez

Florina Lopez

Florina Lopez is an Indigenous woman from Panama, a co-founder and coordinator of the Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network, and an Indigenous activist.

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