Environmental Sustainability (U)

<p>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Peabody Award, and Edward R. Murrow Award, Caitlin Dickerson engages audiences on the power of journalism, telling stories of remarkable resilience and hope from around the world.</p><p>From Ukraine to Romania to Guatemala, Caitlin Dickerson has spent years covering refugees and other humanitarian crises for some of the nation’s foremost news outlets.

<p>Robert Bilott is the tenacious environmental lawyer who became “DuPont’s worst nightmare,” according to <em>The New York Times</em>. The story in his book, <em>Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against Dupont</em>, inspired the major motion picture, <em>Dark Waters</em> (November 2019), featuring Academy-Award nominee Mark Ruffalo as Rob Bilott.  </p><p>Bilott was a corporate defense attorney for eight years until he took on an environmental suit that upended his entire career—and exposed a

<p>Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, and a MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster.

Drawing from his remarkable scope of geopolitical and global economic expertise, Vijay Vaitheeswaran provides insight on how businesses can strategize, innovate, and find opportunity in today’s disruptive landscape.

<p>Chris Mooney writes about energy and the environment at <i>The Washington Post</i>. In May of 2020, Mooney and his staff won the Explanatory Reporting Pulitzer Prize for their groundbreaking series that showed with scientific clarity the dire effects of extreme temperatures on the planet.</p><p>Mooney previously worked at <i>Mother Jones</i>, where he wrote about science and the environment and hosted a weekly podcast.

<p>Grandson of the legendary explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau is building an “International Space Station of the Ocean”</p><p>Aquanaut, documentary filmmaker, co-founder and chairman of PROTEUS™, his name is synonymous with ocean exploration. Today, Fabien Cousteau continues to fulfill his family’s legacy of protecting and preserving the planet’s endangered marine inhabitants and habitats.

<p>Céline Cousteau is an internationally recognized explorer, award winning filmmaker, environmental advocate, life fulfillment coach, and transformational speaker working at the intersection of sustainability, leadership, and integral wellness. </p><p>As a third generation explorer carrying forward her family’s legacy, Céline blends field experience from the Amazon to Antarctica, a background in psychology and intercultural relations, award winning storytelling, and a profound understanding and commitment to human and ecological wellbeing.

<p>A Native American activist, Harvard-educated economist and author, Winona LaDuke has devoted her life to advocating for indigenous people’s rights and environmental justice.</p><p>In 1985, LaDuke co-founded and co-chaired the Indigenous Women’s Network (IWN), a coalition dedicated to empowering women to take active roles in tribal politics and culture. In 1989, she founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP), a tribal land re-acquisition and environmental advocacy effort and one of the largest reservation-based nonprofits in the country.

<p>For more than three decades, Jeff Corwin has been a globally recognized leader and storyteller at the intersection of wildlife, nature, and the environment - sharing his passion for the natural world with audiences around the globe. </p><p>Jeff has brought the wonders of wildlife and conservation to life through acclaimed television series across ABC, NBC, Travel Channel, CNN, Food Network, Disney Channel, and Discovery Networks.

<p>Named a “top ten game-changer in education” by <em>the Huffington Post, </em>Anya Kamenetz is a futurist with a passion for the complexities of how we learn, work, and live in a rapidly changing world. </p><p>Anya Kamenetz is known for making complex ideas about technology, learning, work, and resilience clear, human, and actionable. A former NPR correspondent and <em>Fast Company</em> staff writer, her reporting has appeared in <em>The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, </em>and more.