Tech & Climate Impacts
Channel: New America
Date: 2024-02-13

Climate justice and technology are inextricably intertwined. To best provide urgent relief to frontline communities, public interest technologists are developing climate initiatives built on cross-sector partnerships that center those most impacted. As the urgency of the climate crisis becomes more apparent and devastating, civilians, governments, businesses, nonprofits and funders alike must work to ensure technology is ethically designed, deployed and governed for a climate response that centers those most impacted by the climate crisis.

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Panelists:

*Afua Bruce* (Moderator), Founder & Principal of AnB Advisors, is a leading public interest technologist who has spent her career working at the intersection of technology, policy, and society.

*Amali Tower* , Founder & Executive Director, Climate Refugees, has extensive global experience in refugee protection, resettlement, forced migration and displacement contexts, having worked for NGOs, the UN Refugee Agency and the US Refugee Admissions Program.

*Carlton Waterhouse* , Professor of Law at Howard University, is an international expert on environmental law and environmental justice, as well as reparations and redress for historic injustices.

*Dr. Theodora Dryer* is Director of the Water Justice and Technology Studio, cofounder of the Critical Carbon Computing Collective, and teaches on technology and environmental justice at New York University.

*Maria João Sousa* is Executive Director at Climate Change AI, a nonprofit startup that catalyzes impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning, and is incubated at Cornell Tech’s Public Interest Tech Initiative.

_This panel was one of four events hosted by New America’s Public Interest Technology-University Network (PIT-UN) over MLK Weekend, 2024 in partnership with SIDGE (The Center for Social Impact, Development, and Global Engagement) at the Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Foundation._ 

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