Leadership: How can we be effective change-makers?

A free, online event for the leaders of tomorrow
Brought to you by The Resurgence Trust and EcoResolution

As we stand on the brink of environmental crisis, how can we be effective change-makers and leaders? What skills do we need to cultivate to play our part? And what forms of leadership are needed to create the change the world needs?

Join visionaries, Noga Levy-Rapoport, Salvador Gómez-Colón, Lyla June and KMT Freedom Teacher as they share their views of what ‘good leadership’ and effective change-making entails in a time of environmental crisis - a topic that has the power to shape the future of our planet and its people. 

This evening of online talks and panel discussion will deepen your understanding of the leadership and change-making that is needed in the world today. This event will also provide you with an opportunity to convey what you believe is central to good leadership and what skills you feel you need to nurture in order to become an effective change-maker. With your input, The Resurgence Trust plan to develop a series of skill-sharing workshops in 2021, where you will work together with a range of facilitators to cultivate effective leadership and strategies for change.

Join us and deepen your leadership journey.

Speakers

KMT Freedom Teacher is an activist who uses hip-hop for social awareness and social cohesion, mentoring young people, nurturing their ideas and fuelling passions through music and the environment, in a 6-month leadership programme titled ‘Hip Hop Gardens.’ He is the Co-Founder of the May Project Gardens, an award winning grassroots project that connects urban communities to nature, to themselves and to each other. Through community-led food growing spaces, educational programmes and music/creative art events, the May Project Gardens works at the heart of community, specialising in outreach to vulnerable groups, young people and people of colour, to address poverty, disempowerment and access to resources and influence. This non-profit organisation provides practical, affordable and collective solutions for people to live sustainably and disengage with power structures that don't serve their interests.

Noga Levy-Rapoport, aged 18, is one of the youngest, high-profile climate protestors in the UK. She led the London climate strike march in February 2019 and plays an important role within the U.K. Student Climate Network, where she runs nationwide school initiatives. She has previously presented a BBC Radio 4 programme on the youth strikes, guest-edited a special climate change section in the Guardian and confronting corporate leaders directly at International Petroleum Week last. Noga is one of the founders of T.E.A., an amateur youth-led theatre group based in West London, dedicated to improving teenagers' wellbeing through performing arts.

Salvador Gómez-Colón, a 17-year old climate resilience and youth empowerment advocate, shares a vision of hope for a more sustainable, cohesive, and inclusive future where young people have a seat at the table. Salvador has led several disaster-relief missions and spoke alongside Greta Thunberg for the World Economic Forum as one of the “Ten Teenage Change-makers at the Annual Meeting" earlier this year. His work has been featured in Time Magazine, CNN Business, CNN New Day, The Guardian, The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Global Citizen, International Business Times, among others. He has received the "President's Environmental Youth Award" and the "Diana Award" for his socio-humanitarian work. Salvador is also a part of the Marvel’s Hero Project, a docuseries that highlights the work of real-life superheroes who are creating a positive impact on the world. His episode is available to stream on Disney+.

Lyla June is an Indigenous environmental scientist, doctoral student, educator, community organizer and musician of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages from Taos, NM. Her internationally acclaimed performances and speeches combine speech, hip-hop, poetry, acoustic music, prayer and speech, invigorating and inspiring audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. Her messages focus on the climate crisis, Indigenous rights, supporting youth, inter-cultural healing, historical trauma and traditional land stewardship practices. She blends her undergraduate studies in human ecology at Stanford University, her graduate work in Native American Pedagogy at the University of New Mexico, and the indigenous worldview she grew up with to inform her perspectives and solutions. 

Organisers

The Resurgence Trust

The Resurgence Trust is an educational charity for social and environmental justice. It seeks to inform and inspire change through a broad range of events and by publishing The Ecologist - free, daily, online environmental news and Resurgence & Ecologist - a hope-inspiring magazine that recognises the interconnectedness of today’s global challenges and offers systemic, positive and practical solutions to the most pressing issues of our time. A far cry from the doom and gloom of mainstream media, this publication explores a diversity of topics from politics to peace, economics to ecology, activism to the arts, and much, much more. Find more info about The Resurgence Trust here.

EcoResolution

EcoResolution is an environmental justice platform enabling people to step up rather than shut down in the face of the climate crisis. We educate and empower people around the world to take action, mobilise their communities and co-create a world that thrives. Find more info about Eco-Resolution here.