Building Authentic Pathways for Environmental Justice Advocacy with Abre L. Conner

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2025-01-23 12:00:00 2025-01-23 13:00:00 Building Authentic Pathways for Environmental Justice Advocacy with Abre L. Conner Event Description Environmental and climate issues impact us all. While some advocates are ready to help, what does it mean to approach environmental and climate justice work with an equity and intersectional lens? During this conversation, we will discuss different ways to approach policy and legal advocacy that highlight community-centered environmental and climate justice strategies and build these approaches from the ground up. Speaker Bio Abre’ Conner, Esq. oversees the strategy and collaboration across the NAACP to dismantle environmental racism. She has taught Education Law and is currently faculty in the Environmental Policy and Management Program at the University of California-Davis. A native of Lakeland, FL, Conner served as the Directing Attorney of Health at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley where she led the litigation, direct legal services work, and advocacy regarding health equity and the social determinants of health that impact historically excluded communities across the Silicon Valley. Before joining the Law Foundation, Conner was a staff attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, where she advocated for the civil rights and liberties of Central Valley and Northern California residents, including an emphasis on issues that impact people of color in rural communities such as environmental justice. As a staff attorney at the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment in Delano, CA, Conner primarily worked with migrant farmworkers and in unincorporated communities. She has also worked on Capitol Hill and for the Obama Administration at the White House.  A graduate of American University, Washington College of Law and the University of Florida, Conner currently sits on the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors, Earthjustice's Board of Trustees, Countersteam's Advisory Council, and has been named a top 40 under 40 Nation’s Best Advocate by the National Bar Association, top 100 leader by Fresno Black Chamber of Commerce, top 40 On the Rise Attorneys by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, Community Champion by Fresno Building Healthy Communities, 40 under 40 alumni by the University of Florida, 40 under 40 Young, Gifted and Green recipient, and has been featured in the New York Times’ The Daily, Forbes Magazine, American Bar Association Journal, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated’s National Magazine, The Archon and Cosmopolitan Magazine. Case Western Reserve University School of Law George Gund Hall Room A59, Moot Courtroom 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106 School of Law School of Law America/New_York public