This episode features Lauren Burke and Georgia Nicolau, who talk about building worker and community engagement in the fight for climate justice and transforming differences into constructive action.
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In May 2024, ATLANTIC FELLOWS from across AFRICA gathered in NAIROBI, KENYA to discuss cross-program, cross-continental collective action needed to dismantle inequities on the continent. The Convening looked specifically at pressing issues in Africa, including the economy and trade.
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In October 2024, Atlantic Fellows from around the world gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, for a convening on planetary health and just transitions. Co-hosted by Dejusticia, a leading Colombian human rights organization, the convening focussed on environmental justice, Indigenous knowledge and the path to a post-fossil fuel economy. The gathering took place just ahead of the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in Cali, where many Fellows continued these vital discussions. In this new podcast series, we catch up with conversations between Atlantic Fellows and others who participated in the convening. Listen to their insights, experiences, and bold ideas for tackling the climate crisis.
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Being Human When Digital was born out of the Atlantic community's exploration of the use of augmented and virtual realities and the ethical issues arising from using them. As Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead, Alice Wroe is concerned with how emerging technologies can strengthen the Atlantic Fellows' collective work of addressing the root causes of systemic inequities. These technologies also show how the Atlantic community can work together, while physically apart, to become a force for social good.
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Walking The Talk For Dementia was the brainchild of three people, including two Fellows for Equity in Brain Health, Fernando Aguzzoli-Peres from Brazil and Clara Dominguez from Santiago de Compostela. They, along with Brazilian, Gustavo San Martin, wanted to organize a conference with a difference where, over four days, people living with dementia, practitioners, researchers, caregivers and Atlantic Fellows walked and talked together to better understand each other’s experiences so that collectively they could create change.
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Clinical psychologist and neuroscientist Professor Ian Robertson, author of ‘How Confidence Works’ and journalist and broadcaster Fionnuala Sweeney in conversation with members of the Atlantic Fellows community. The 7-part series examines themes around equity, culture and the confidence of the collective as well as of the individual. It explores how confidence results from both nature and nurture, how it is affected by race, gender and socio-economic status, and how it can be lost and regained.
Empowering catalytic communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.
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