Atlantic Fellows

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE and ATLANTIC PROGRAMS are hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19.

While the coronavirus has physically distanced and isolated millions of people, it has more than ever in our life-times, drawn people and organisations together under a common humanity and a profoundly collective commitment to act. In this series of webinars, we turn our imagination to something (k)new where we remember, reflect and shape what our local and global futures might look like post COVID-19.

In this webinar, the speakers discuss addressing climate change in a post COVID-19 world:

(1) DR DAVID SCHIMEL, Senior Research Scientist & Technical Group Supervisor, Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems, Jet Propulsion Lab, CALTECH;

(2) DR MUSTAFA SANTIAGO ALI, Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate & Community Revitalization, National Wildlife Federation, Founder & CEO Revitalization Strategies; and

(3) JACQUI PATTERSON, Senior Director, NAACP Environmental & Climate Justice Program.

MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Program and Impact Lead, Atlantic Institute.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE and ATLANTIC PROGRAMS are hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19.

While the coronavirus has physically distanced and isolated millions of people, it has more than ever in our life-times, drawn people and organisations together under a common humanity and a profoundly collective commitment to act. In this series of webinars, we turn our imagination to something (k)new where we remember, reflect and shape what our local and global futures might look like post COVID-19.

In this webinar, the speakers discuss anti-racist leadership, in particular commitment, action and sustainability:

(1) ELIZABETH CREWS, Director, Democracy Beyond Elections, Participatory Budgeting Project;

(2) BETSY HODGES, 47th Mayor of Minneapolis and Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity; and

(3) DR LEYLA HUSSEIN OBE, psychotherapist, Founder of The Dahlia Project, and Rector of the University of St Andrews.

MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Program and Impact Lead, Atlantic Institute.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, ATLANTIC PROGRAMS and RHODES SCHOLARSHIP are hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19.

While the coronavirus has physically distanced and isolated millions of people, it has more than ever in our life-times, drawn people and organisations together under a common humanity and a profoundly collective commitment to act. In this series of webinars, we turn our imagination to something (k)new where we remember, reflect and shape what our local and global futures might look like post COVID-19.

In this webinar, the speakers discuss various ways in which we can all practise radical self-care:

(1) MIA BIRDSONG, pathfinder, activist and storyteller;

(2) IAN ROBERTSON, Professor Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin and Co-director, Global Brain Health Institute; and

(3) IVELYSE ANDINO, Founder and CEO, Radical Health; Roddenberry Fellow 2019.

MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Program and Impact Lead, Atlantic Institute.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, ATLANTIC PROGRAMS and RHODES SCHOLARSHIP are hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19.

While the coronavirus has physically distanced and isolated millions of people, it has more than ever in our life-times, drawn people and organisations together under a common humanity and a profoundly collective commitment to act. In this series of webinars, we turn our imagination to something (k)new where we remember, reflect and shape what our local and global futures might look like post COVID-19.

In this seventh webinar, the speakers explore vaccine development, distribution and justice post COVID-19:

(1) PROFESSOR ALLEN BUCHANAN, Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Department of Philosophy and Freedom Center;

(2) PROFESSOR GLENDA GRAY, President and Chief Executive Officer, South African Medical Research Council; and

(3)TIAN JOHNSON, Convenor, Global Civil Society Platform for COVID-19 Research and Advocacy.

MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Program and Impact Lead, Atlantic Institute.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, ATLANTIC PROGRAMS and RHODES SCHOLARSHIP are hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19.

While the coronavirus has physically distanced and isolated millions of people, it has more than ever in our life-times, drawn people and organisations together under a common humanity and a profoundly collective commitment to act. In this series of webinars, we turn our imagination to something (k)new where we remember, reflect and shape what our local and global futures might look like post COVID-19.

In this sixth webinar, the speakers explore the future of capitalism and new economies:

(1) DR JASON HICKEL, economic anthropologist and author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics, and Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London;

(2) DR GILAD ISAACS, Co-Director & Co-Founder, Institute for Economic Justice, Johannesburg, South Africa; and

(3) CRYSTAL SIMEONI, Director, NAWI, Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective & Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity.

MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Senior Fellow Engagement Lead, Atlantic Institute.

Join BUSISIWE DLAMINI and CEDRIC BROWN, Atlantic Fellows for RACIAL EQUITY, as they discuss the future for racism post COVID-19 in the US and South Africa, including the opportunities for change created by the pandemic and the importance of having a clear vision as to what black liberation might look like.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programmes around the world in their quest for fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Atlantic Fellows | www.atlanticfellows.org/about

Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity | https://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org/

SENIOR FELLOWS VIRTUAL WELCOME CEREMONY | 1 AUGUST 2020

SPEAKERS

(1) EVIE O'BRIEN, interim Executive Director, Atlantic Institute.

(2) TANYA CHARLES, Program & Impact Lead, Senior Fellow Engagement, Atlantic Institute.

(3) SISONKE MSIMANG, South African writer & author of Always Another Country - A Memoir of Exile and Home.

(4) LOAN TRAN, Co-Director, Southern Vision Alliance, North Carolina, USA.

(5) RUKIA LUMUMBA, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, Executive Director, People's Advocacy Institute & Co-Coordinator, Electoral Justice Project, Mississippi, USA.

MUSIC | With thanks to WOMEN UNITE from South Africa, who seek to empower women and to stand up against contemporary social ills.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Atlantic Fellows | https://www.atlanticfellows.org/

Join Atlantic Fellows BETSY HODGES (Atlantic Fellow for RACIAL EQUITY) and MAUREEN SIGAUKE (Atlantic Fellow for SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY) as they discuss the future for racism post COVID-19, including the impact in the US and Zimbabwe of lockdown and the death of George Floyd.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programmes around the world in their quest for fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Atlantic Fellows | www.atlanticfellows.org/about

Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity | https://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org/

Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity | https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, ATLANTIC PROGRAMS and RHODES SCHOLARSHIP has been hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19. In this fifth webinar, the speakers explored international perspectives on the racialization of COVID-19, including resistance and reimagining.

EXCERPT from keynote presentation by DR MERA PENEHIRA, Associate Professor in Indigenous Education, School of Indigenous Graduate Studies, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, New Zealand.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, ATLANTIC PROGRAMS and RHODES SCHOLARSHIP has been hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19. In this fifth webinar, the speakers explored international perspectives on the racialization of COVID-19, including resistance and reimagining.

CLOSING POEM, written and performed by RICHARD WALLACE, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, Founder and Executive Director, Equity And Transformation (EAT), Chicago.