Resistance & Resilience: Responses to the Climate Crisis from Cuba & Puerto Rico (Session 1)
Cuba and Puerto Rico are acutely feeling the impacts of the climate crisis and are responding in a diversity of ways. In this inaugural panel, we will
explore what resilience means with perspectives from the islands and the diaspora:
Arturo Massol-Deyá, Casa Pueblo, Puerto Rico
Roberto Pérez Rivero, Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Cuba
Leidy Casimiro, Universidad de Santi Spíritus & Finca del Medio, Cuba
Cecilio Ortiz García, Macalester College & RISE Network, Puerto Rico
Bruni Pizarro, Junta for Progressive Action, United States
Moderated by Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez & Universidad de La Habana
This event is made possible with the support of: Yale School of the Environment, The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center at Yale, Yale Ciencia Initiative, Fundacion Antonio Nunes-Jimenez, The Caribbean Agroecology Institute, and Junta for Progressive Action
For information and to register, please visit: www.caribbeanagroecology.org. For questions, please contact Devin Osborne at devin.osborne@yale.edu.