CUNY Climate Justice Summit
Tue, Feb 25, 2025
9:30 AM–4:30 PM
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
Concourse Level
Overview
Join us for the first student-centered, community-led, CUNY-wide Environmental and Climate Justice Summit!
Organized by the NYC Climate Justice Hub, and a partnership between CUNY and the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA)
The Summit is geared toward CUNY students who want to learn more about the NYC Climate Justice Hub and how to be involved in supporting a climate justice agenda in New York City and State that aligns with New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA) and their coalitional partners fighting on the frontlines to build a more just city.
If you are looking to get connected to climate justice activism on- and off-campus, this is the place to be! The Summit will bring together CUNY students from across all campuses so that you can gather with like-minded peers to find ways you all can shape the future of climate justice organizing at CUNY and NYC.
This event is for all CUNY students, faculty, and staff. This is a student-centered event so we will prioritize CUNY student attendance. We encourage all CUNY Students to register, including all campuses and degree levels.
CUNY students who attend the full day are eligible to receive a certificate of completion.
Goals & Partnerships
The goal for this Summit is to hear about the historical and present-day struggles for environmental and climate justice and the range of collaborative work being done across several CUNY campuses with NYC-EJA member organizations from the Bronx (Nos Quedamos and The Point CDC), Brooklyn (El Puente and UPROSE), and Manhattan (The Brotherhood Sister Sol and Good Old Lower East Side/GOLES). CUNY students will have opportunities to hear from and engage with the aforementioned NYC-EJA member organizations and NYC-EJA staff who work on city- and state-wide campaigns, meet with other students and faculty from across CUNY working on these issues, develop skills, learn the history of CUNY student activism, and hear how to plug into the climate justice movement.
Schedule
| Time | Session |
| 9:30am – 10:00am | Welcome & Grounding |
| 10:00am – 10:15am | Opening Keynote |
| 10:15am – 11:00am | Intro to the Hub + NYC-EJA |
| 11:00am – 12:00pm | Panel: The Role of NYC-EJA in the EJ/CJ Fight |
| 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Panel: The Role/Importance of Youth in the Fight for EJ/CJ and Social Justice On-Campus and in Our Neighborhoods |
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm | Hub Showcase: Community-University Partnerships: Learnings, Challenges, Triumphs, and Pathways Forward |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm | Call to Action for CUNY Students |
| 4:00pm – 4:15pm | Closing Keynote |
| 4:15pm – 4:30pm | Closing Remarks |
| 4:30pm | Reception |
In order to make this event as open and accessible as possible, we invite you to contact us at [email protected] if you require accommodations.
About the Hub
The NYC Climate Justice Hub is a partnership between CUNY and NYC-EJA to support NYC-EJA’s and its members’ efforts to work with New York City’s underserved, working-class communities of color in securing environmental protections, climate investments and benefits, and community-directed solutions. Thus far, the Hub has built more than half a dozen research teams to support the work of NYC-EJA member organizations and NYC-EJA campaigns, connected dozens of classes, rolled out a Climate Justice Fellowship, Internship, and Academy program with an inaugural cohort of 25 students across the CUNY system, and developed interdisciplinary community-supporting media and curriculum. Research and advocacy topics include just transition, food sovereignty, community-owned renewable energy, coastal resilience, air quality, green infrastructure and many others.
