Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South | Bienvenidos Tiempos turbulentos: conversaciones con líderes de resiliencia en el Sur Global

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These are wild times to be alive. From the local to the global, we are facing complex, interlocked crises. Yet, around the world people are responding in creative, dynamic, grounded ways to adapt and emerge. Omega Resilience Awards, a new program of Commonweal, was created to gather a community of people interested in resilient strategies. Join The New School co-host Michael Lerner in conversation with three of the co-creators of this dynamic global resilience community. In this session number three, Michael speaks with Anabella Museri and Sofia Nemenmann from Asociación Argentina de Abogados/as Ambientalistas/Colectivo de Acción por la Justicia Ecosocial in Argentina.

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Estamos viviendo tiempos turbulentos. A nivel local y global, estamos enfrentando crisis complejas y entrelazadas. Sin embargo, hay personas alrededor del mundo que responden a ellas de forma creativa, dinámica, y con fundamentos que les permiten adaptarse y resurgir. Omega Resilience Awards es un nuevo programa de Commonweal que fue creado para congregar a una comunidad de personas interesadas en estrategias resilientes. Sé parte de estas conversaciones con el coanfitrión de The New School con tres de los cocreadores de esta comunidad dinámica de resiliencia global. En esta tercera edición, Michael tiene una charla con Anabella Museri y Sofia Nemenmann de la Asociación Argentina de Abogados/as Ambientalistas.

Anabella Museri has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a postgraduate degree in Sociology of Law. She has 15 years of experience working on research, advocacy and the promotion of human rights (HR) in the public sector and for local and international NGOs. She specialized in criminal justice and the prison system, and throughout her career she has also worked on environment, gender equality, healthcare and other issues related to the human rights agenda. She is dedicated to the development of projects, networks, and creative strategies to denounce human rights violations, generate empathy and promote social change. And she is also working as project manager on the intersection point of arts and HR, developing projects that seek to generate awareness on social issues. She enjoys accompanying projects and institutional processes with strategic and creative actions that promote social change, both within organizations and in the communities to which they belong.

Sofia Nemenmann is an ecofeminist activist who lives in Bariloche, Argentina. In 2013, together with a great friend, she co-founded Río Santa Cruz Sin Represas, a socio-environmental project that aims to stop the construction of two mega hydroelectric dams on the Santa Cruz River. Based on this project, she directed a documentary called “El último río de la patagonia” (The Last Free River of Patagonia). She is currently co-director of the Argentine Association of Environmental Lawyers and advisor for Argentina of the Global Greengrants Fund.