Resurgence Trust: Leadership, How Can We Be Effective Changemakers?
In this online event we ask how can we be effective change-makers? What skills do we need to cultivate to play our part? And what forms of leadership are needed to create the change the world needs?
As we stand on the brink of interlinking ecological and social crises, how can we be effective change-makers and leaders? What skills do we need to cultivate to play our part? And what forms of leadership are needed to create the change the world needs?
Brought to you by The Resurgence Trust and EcoResolution, we hosted a free, online event for the leaders of tomorrow. Held in November 2020, this evening of online talks and panelist discussion sought to help deepen our understanding of the leadership and change-making that is needed in the world today.
Visionaries Noga Levy-Rapoport, Salvador Gómez-Colón, Lyla June and KMT Freedom Teacher were all invited to share their views of what ‘good leadership’ and effective change-making entails in a time of environmental crisis - a topic that has the power to shape the future of our planet and its people.
This partnership and event was also established in order to provide our audiences with an opportunity to convey what they believe good leadership depends upon, and what skills they feel you need to nurture in order to become an effective change-maker. With this input, The Resurgence Trust is currently developing a series of skill-sharing workshops, where participants will work together with a range of facilitators to cultivate effective leadership and strategies for change.
You can watch the full online event here.
More about the speakers:
KMT Freedom Teacher is an activist who uses hip-hop for social awareness and social cohesion, mentoring young people, nurturing their ideas and fuelling passions through music and the environment, in a 6-month leadership programme titled ‘Hip Hop Gardens.’ He is the Co-Founder of the May Project Gardens, an award winning grassroots project that connects urban communities to nature, to themselves and to each other. This non-profit organisation provides practical, affordable and collective solutions for people to live sustainably and disengage with power structures that don't serve their interests.
Noga Levy-Rapoport, aged 18, is one of the youngest, high-profile climate protestors in the UK. She led the London climate strike march in February 2019 and plays an important role within the U.K. Student Climate Network, where she runs nationwide school initiatives. She has previously presented a BBC Radio 4 programme on the youth strikes and guest-edited a special climate change section in the Guardian. Noga is one of the founders of T.E.A., an amateur youth-led theatre group based in West London, dedicated to improving teenagers' wellbeing through performing arts.
Salvador Gómez-Colón, a 17-year old climate resilience and youth empowerment advocate, shares a vision of hope for a more sustainable, cohesive, and inclusive future where young people have a seat at the table. Salvador has led several disaster-relief missions and spoke alongside Greta Thunberg for the World Economic Forum 2020 as one of the “Ten Teenage Change-makers at the Annual Meeting". He has received the "President's Environmental Youth Award" and the "Diana Award" for his socio-humanitarian work. Salvador is also a part of the Marvel’s Hero Project, a docuseries that highlights the work of real-life superheroes who are creating a positive impact on the world. His episode is available to stream on Disney+.
Lyla June is an Indigenous environmental scientist, doctoral student, educator, community organizer and musician of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages from Taos, NM. Her messages focus on the climate crisis, Indigenous rights, supporting youth, inter-cultural healing, historical trauma and traditional land stewardship practices. She blends her undergraduate studies in human ecology at Stanford University, her graduate work in Native American Pedagogy at the University of New Mexico, and the indigenous worldview she grew up with to inform her perspectives and solutions.
About The Resurgence Trust:
The Resurgence Trust is an educational charity for social and environmental justice. It seeks to inform and inspire change through a broad range of events and by publishing The Ecologist - free, daily, online environmental news and Resurgence & Ecologist - a hope-inspiring magazine that recognises the interconnectedness of today’s global challenges and offers systemic, positive and practical solutions to the most pressing issues of our time. A far cry from the doom and gloom of mainstream media, this publication explores a diversity of topics from politics to peace, economics to ecology, activism to the arts, and much, much more. Find more info about The Resurgence Trust here.