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Please join Professor Juan Camilo Osorio and the Pratt Disaster Resilience Network, in partnership with the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School, for our spring 2021 event series, Communities Beyond Crisis. In this four-part series, created in part to build upon the GCPE course "Planning for Disaster: Crisis, Social Movements and The City'' we will be discussing the ethical, political and technical opportunities and challenges associated with planning for disaster risk reduction and recovery.
This event will focus on Agroecology and Food Sovereignty with a discussion with three activists from Puerto Rico, Ana Elisa Pérez Quintero, Magha Garcia Medina and Elda Guadalupe Carrasquillo.
Special emphasis will be placed on the prospect and implications of participatory action research, the contribution of grassroots women leaders in disaster situations, the Movement for Black Lives against racist disaster recovery practices, and the experience of immigrant and indigenous communities in the recovery process. Please save these dates and follow @Pratt_DRN on Instagram and Facebook for updates.
Check out the other events in the series HERE.
This event is open to the public. Live Spanish translation will be provided. For questions, please contact us at tedc@newschool.edu .
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Ana Elisa has been an activist for environmental and food justice in Puerto Rico since she was thirteen organizing for the protection of the Northeastern Ecological Corridor from megadevelopment; facilitating and setting up farmer exchanges and community gardens; a board member of the Model Forest of Puerto Rico and of the Northeastern Ecological Corridor Coalition, worked for ENLACE of the Caño MartÃn Peña/ Martin Peña Community Trust developing numerous environmental justice initiatives, and a member of Boricuá Organization of Ecological Agriculture.
Magha Garcia Medina is an eco-farmer and environmental activist in Puerto Rico. She is a member of the National Coordination Team of Organización Boricuá de Agricultora Ecológica de Puerto Rico, a grassroots group of farmers and allies who advocate for agroecology and are members of the Latin American/Caribbean Chapter (CLOC) of La Via Campesina. Magha also challenges agribusiness with the group Nada Santo Sobre Monsanto, a collective of multiple organizations, representatives of civil society that have come together to defend the right to healthy food, free of transgenics and protect the environment.
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