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GLOBAL WOMEN'S ASSEMBLY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

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The Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice is from June 23-28, 2025.
Panels will be daily from 1:00 - 6:00 PM ET. 
All times listed below are in ET Eastern Time USA.
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DAY 1 - MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2025

1:00 PM - WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS: GROUNDING PRINCIPLES FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE, RIGHTS, & DEMOCRACY
WITH A SPECIAL OPENING BY CASEY CAMP-HORINEK (PONCA NATION)

  • Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA

  • Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation), Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator, Turtle Island/USA

  • Zukiswa White, Project Specialist and Social Justice Consultant, South Africa

1:45 PM - NO GREENWASHING: REJECTING FALSE SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS

  • Clara Vondrich, Senior Policy Counsel, Public Citizen’s Climate Program and Public Voices fellow with the OpEd Project, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Turtle Island/USA

  • Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi (Sámi), Chair of the Sámi Parliament’s Youth Council, Norway

  • Hwei Mian Lim, Independent Consultant and Co-lead for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement - False Solutions and Dangerous Distractions, The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC), Malaysia

  • Rita Uwaka, Environmental Rights Action (ERA) Coordinator, Forest & Biodiversity Programme, Friends of the Earth Africa (FoEA), Nigeria

  • Silvia Ribeiro, Uruguayan journalist, feminist and environmental activist, Uruguay

  • Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek, Independent Academic Researcher, Netherlands

2:50 PM - WOMEN FOR FORESTS: PROTECTION & REFORESTATION - PART 1

  • Aditi Sen, Climate and Energy Program Director, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Turtle Island/USA

  • Devi Aggriani (Taluk), Member of the Indigenous Taluk Kuantan community & President, Indigenous Women's Association of the Archipelago (PEREMPUAN AMAN), Indonesia

  • Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa), Kichwa leader from Sarayaku, Ecuador, Spokeswoman for Mujeres Amazónicas Defensoras de la Selva (Amazon Women in Defense of the Jungle), WECAN Coordinator Ecuadorian Amazon, Ecuador

  • Yolanda Fulmer (Tlingit), Native Rights Activist, Representative for the WECAN Tongass Hub, Turtle Island/USA

  • Additional speaker to be announced!

3:50 PM - FEMINIST FRAMEWORKS FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE JUSTICE

  • Noelene Nabulivou (Dravuwalu / Naceva / Kadavu), Executive Director, DIVA for Equality; Movement-Led Committee, Pacific Islands Feminist Alliance for Climate Justice (PIFA4CJ), Fiji

  • dipti bhatnagar, The Commission Project, Mozambique

  • Adenike Titilope Oladosu, Executive Director, I Lead Climate Action Initiative, Nigeria

  • Bridget Burns, Director of Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Turtle Island/USA
  • Cindy Wiesner, Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Turtle Island/USA

  • ​​Sascha Gabizon, Executive Director, Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF), Netherlands

4:55 PM - CLIMATE FINANCE FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

  • Bronwen Tucker, Global Public Finance Campaign Co-Manager, Oil Change International, Canada

  • Gloria Majia, Policy Officer - Natural Resources and Sustainable Climate Finance, Tax Justice Network Africa, Malawi/USA 

  • Meena Raman, Head of Programmes, Third World Network, Malaysia

  • Klelia Guerrero García, Tax and Gender Justice Specialist, Latin American and for the Caribbean Network for Social, Economic and Environmental Justice – Latindadd, Ecuador

Day 1
Day 2

DAY 2 - TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2025

1:00 PM - OPENING COMMENTS & WELCOME
Moderation and daily opening comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA

1:15 PM - GLOBAL VOICES FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE IN A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY 

  • Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas, Head of COP30 Unit at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Brazil, Brazil

  • Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2010 to 2016), Founding Partner, Global Optimism, Costa Rica

  • Fleur Newman, Action Empowerment Unit Lead (ACE, Gender and Youth), UNFCCC, Germany

  • Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Coordinator of Indigenous women and peoples association of Chad, Co-chair of International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change, SDGs Advocate, Chad

  • Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland; Member, The Elders; Co-Founder, Project Dandelion, Ireland

  • Rachel Kyte, UK Special Representative on Climate, Professor of Practice in Climate Policy, University of Oxford, Dean Emerita, Tufts University, United Kingdom

  • Susana Muhamad, Former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, Colombia

2:35 PM - BUILDING A HEALTHY & THRIVING FUTURE: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

  • Kahea Pacheco (Kanaka 'Ōiwi), Co-Executive Director, Women's Earth Alliance (WEA), Hawaii, Turtle Island/USA

  • Mariann Bassey Orovwuje, Deputy Executive Director of ERA/FoEN and Coordinator, Food Sovereignty Program, Friends of the Earth Nigeria and Africa

  • Monique Verdin (Houma Nation), WECAN Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator in the Gulf South, Turtle Island/USA

  • Wilma Mendoza (Mosetén), President of the National Confederation of Indigenous Women from Bolivia (CNAMIB), Bolivia

  • Yasso Kanti Bhattachan (Thakali), Vice Chair of the National Indigenous Women’s Forum (NIWF), and founding member and advisor of the National Indigenous Women's Federation (NIWF), Nepal

3:35 PM - NARRATIVES MATTER: SOCIAL MEDIA AND STORIES AS A TOOL FOR CLIMATE ACTION AND EDUCATION

  • Harriet Shugarman, Advisory Council Chair, Our Kids Climate, Turtle Island/USA

  • Laura Cook, Special Projects Lead, Project Dandelion, United Kingdom

  • Priscila Tapajowara (Tapajo), president of Midia Indigena Association, Brazil

  • Vanessa Nakate, Director, Tard Foundation, Uganda

  • Wawa Gatheru, Climate Activist and Founder, Black Girl Environmentalist, Turtle Island/USA

4:35 PM - REMATRIATING THE LAND: INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY AND THE LAND BACK MOVEMENT​

  • Claire Charlo (Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes), Indigenous Feminisms Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network, Turtle Island

  • Bryanna R. Brown (Inuit), Political Advisor and Land and Water Advocate, Indigenous Climate Action, Canada

  • Janene Yazzie (Navajo/Dine’), Director of Policy & Advocacy, NDN Collective, Diné Bikéyah (Turtle Island)

  • Pluma Bárbara Moreno Torres (Jíbaro-Taino Nation), General Coordinator, of Organización del Pueblo Indígena Can - Jíbaro de Boriké (CAN) and of Centro de Apoyo Mutuo Jíbaro de Lares (CAMJi-Lares), Puerto Rico

  • Taily Terena (Terena), Indigenous Rights and Climate Activist, Brazil

  • Moderation and comments by Dr. Lyla June Johnston (Diné/Navajo & Tsétsêhéstâhese/Cheyenne), Indigenous Musician, Scholar, and Community Organizer, Turtle Island

DAY 3

DAY 3 - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2025

1:00 PM - OPENING COMMENTS & WELCOME
Moderation and daily opening comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA

1:15 PM - JUST TRANSITIONS

  • Ayshka Najib, Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) Just Transition Working Group, Fridays For Future MAPA, UNICEF Youth Advocates, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

  • gina cortés valderrama, Climate, gender and economic justice expert, Colombia

  • Lorraine Chiponda, Advisor, Africa Common Transitions Agenda (ACTA), Zimbabwe

  • Margaret Kwateng, Campaign Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Turtle Island/USA

  • Serena Mendizábal, Cayuga Wolf Clan, Managing Director, Sacred Earth Solar, Canada

  • Tetet Lauron, Advisor for the United Nations Programme, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Philippines

2:25 PM - WOMEN FOR FORESTS: PROTECTION & REFORESTATION - PART 2

  • Farwiza Farhan, Forest Conservationist, Found & Chair, Forest, Nature & Environment Aceh (HAkA), Indonesia

  • Justin Winters, Co-founder & Executive Director, One Earth, Turtle Island/USA

  • Leila Salazar-López, Executive Director, Amazon Watch, Turtle Island

  • Lídia Guajajara (Guajajara), Indigenous Climate Activist and Communicator from Araribóia Indigenous Territory in the state of Maranhão and WECAN Coordinator in Brazil, Brazil

  • Mary Louise Malig, Policy Director, Global Forest Coalition, Bolivia

  • Neema Namadamu, Founder and Executive Director of Hero Women Rising, and WECAN Coordinator, DR Congo

3:35 PM - IMPACTS OF THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA 

  • Nalleli Cobo, Climate Activist & Storyteller, 2022 Goldman Prize winner, Co-founder of People not Pozos and South Central Youth Leadership Coalition, Turtle Island/USA

  • Rene Ann Goodrich (Bad River Ojibwe), Native Lives Matter Coalition and Wisconsin Department of Justice MMIW Task Force, Indigenous Women's Treaty Alliance as facilitated by the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)

  • Sharon Lavigne, Founder and President of RISE St. James, Turtle Island/USA

  • Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe), Tribal Attorney and Founder of Giniw Collective, Line 3 pipeline Resistance Leader, Turtle Island/USA

  • Vishnu Laalitha Surapaneni, MD, MPH, Internist and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Turtle Island/USA

4:35 PM - HEALING JUSTICE IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS: RESTORING MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT

  • Cara Page, Founder of Changing Frequencies and Co-founder of the Healing Histories Project, Turtle Island/USA

  • Daiara Tukano (Tukano de Alto Rio Negro), Indigenous Activist and artist, Brazil

  • Dr. Vivian Tatiana Camacho Hinojosa (Quechua), Director of Ancestral Traditional Medicine within the Vice Ministry of Ancestral Traditional Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Bolivia

  • Nina Simons, Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, Turtle Island/USA

  • Zainab Salbi, Co-founder, Daughters for Earth, Turtle Island/USA

day 4

DAY 4 - THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2025

1:00 PM - OPENING COMMENTS & WELCOME
Moderation and daily opening comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA

1:15 PM - WELL BEING ECONOMIES FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET

  • Majo Andrade Cerda (Kichwa), Member of the Council of CONFENIAE, Leader of the Economy and Community Development area, Member of the Kichwa peoples of Serena, Federation of Napo Indigenous Organizations (FOIN), Ecuador​

  • Dr. Jemilah Mahmood, Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Malaysia

  • Dr. Maliha Khan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Women Deliver, Pakistan/United Kingdom

  • Rauna Kuokkanen (Sápmi), Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland, Finland

  • Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Honorary President of The Club of Rome & Executive Chair of Earth4All, Belgium

  • Memory Kachambwa, Executive Director, African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), Kenya

2:25 PM - DIVESTMENT MOVEMENTS & TRANSITIONING AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS

  • Heffa Schücking, Founder, Management & Campaign Strategist, Urgewald, Germany

  • Michelle Cook (Diné), Founder, Divest Invest Protect, Turtle Island

  • Ayumi Fukakusa, Executive Director / Climate change and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Japan, Japan

  • Roishetta Sibley-Ozane M.S., Founder of Vessel Project of Louisiana and Co-Coordinator of the Gulf South Fossil Finance Hub, Turtle Island

  • Olivia Bisa Tirko (Chapra), President, Autonomous Territorial Government of the Chapra Nation (GTANCH), Peru

3:25 PM - ON FIRE! YOUTH LEADING THE WAY

  • Judy Kipkenda (Ogiek), Founder of Koibatek Ogiek Women and Youth Network (KOWYN), Kenya

  • Maria Reyes, Climate and Human Rights Activist and Fundraising Coordinator of the Alliance of Non Governmental Radical Youth (ANGRY), Mexico

  • Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Convenor, Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP), Senior Advisory, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, Philippines

  • Pema Wangmo Lama (Mugum Indigenous), Vice-Chair and Founder, WE-Women from Indigenous Nationalities (WE-WIN), Nepal

  • Samaï Malaïca Gualinga (Kichwa), Vice President of the Kichwa Sarayaku Indigenous People, Defender of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nature, Ecuador

  • Xiye Bastida (Otomi-Toltec), Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Re-Earth Initiative, Mexico/USA

  • Moderation and comments by: Niria Alicia Garcia (Xicana), Indígena community organizer, educator, storykeeper and human rights advocate, UN Young Champion of the Earth 2020, Run4Salmon Prayer, Turtle Island/USA

4:35 PM - REGENERATIVE AND JUST ENERGY FOR ALL

  • Bénédicte Larissa, Partner, ENAGRI-CI, Ivory Coast

  • Erika Martínez Lizarraga, President, GoiEner, Spain

  • Karabo Mokgonyana, Renewable Energy Campaigner, Power Shift Africa, South Africa

  • Natalie Isaacs, Founder, One Million Women, Australia

  • Wahleah Johns (Diné), Former Director, U.S. DOE Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, Co-Founder of Native Renewables, Turtle Island/USA

day 5

DAY 5 - FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2025

1:00 PM - OPENING COMMENTS & WELCOME
Moderation and daily opening comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA

1:15 PM - WOMEN PARLIAMENTARIANS FOR A FOSSIL FUEL NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

Panel co-hosted by Parliamentarians for a Fossil Fuel Free Future, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, and WECAN​​​

  • Honorable Cecilia Requena, National Senator, Bolivia

  • Honorable Rosa Galvez, Canadian Senator, Canada

  • Honorable Nusrat Hanje, Member of Parliament of Tanzania, Tanzania

  • Moderation and comments by Tzeporah Berman, Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, Canada

  • More speaker announcements coming soon! 
     

2:15 PM - IMPLEMENTING THE ESCAZU AGREEMENT: PROTECTING WOMEN LAND DEFENDERS AND THE DEFENSE OF NATURE IN LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

  • Fany Kuiru Castro (Uitoto), General Coordinator of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), Colombia

  • Miriam Miranda Chamorro (Garifuna), Executive Director, The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), Honduras

  • Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa), Kichwa leader from Sarayaku, Ecuador, Spokeswoman for Amazon Women in Defense of the Jungle, WECAN Coordinator Ecuadorian Amazon, Ecuador

  • Patricia Madrigal Cordero, Former Vice Minister of the Costa Rican Environment, Costa Rica

  • Ruth Spencer, Deputy Chair, Marine Ecosystems Protected Areas (MEPA) Trust, Antigua and Barbuda

3:15 PM - OCEANS, FRESHWATER, AND CLIMATE

  • Aya Mariyam Rahil Naseem, Marine Biologist, Co-Founder and Vice President, Maldives Coral Institute, Maldives

  • Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons (Leech Lake Ojibwe), Ojibwe Elder, Author, Women of Wellbriety, International, United Nations Observer on Women/Indigenous Issues, Turtle Island/USA

  • Mamta Borgoyary, Executive Director, She Changes Climate, India

  • Siziwe Mota, Africa Program Director, International Rivers Network, South Africa

  • Vasser Seydel, President, The Oxygen Project, Turtle Island/USA

4:25 PM - RIGHTS OF NATURE AS A SYSTEMIC SOLUTION: PROTECTING AND DEFENDING THE PLACES WE LIVE

  • Callie Veelenturf, Founder and Executive Director, The Leatherback Project, Panama

  • Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Māori NZ, Iwi: Ngaa Rauru, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahine), Te Pāti Maori Wāhine Co-Leader, MP for Te Tai Hauāuru, Aotearoa

  • Julia Horinek (Ponca Nation), WECAN Project Coordinator, Plains Organizer with Movement Rights , Turtle Island

  • Mari Luz Canaquiri (Kukama), President, Kukama Women's Federation of Samiria and Marañón (Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana), 2025 Goldman Prize Winner, Peru

  • Shannon Biggs, Co-founder, Director, Movement Rights, Turtle Island​

day 6

DAY 6 - SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2025

1:00 PM - OPENING COMMENTS & WELCOME
Moderation and daily opening comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA

1:15 PM - INDIGENOUS WOMEN FROM BRAZIL ON THE PATH TO COP30

  • Federal Deputy Célia Xakriabá (Xakriabá), Federal Deputy in Brazilian Congress in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and co-founder of the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality (ANMIGA), Brazil

  • Jozileia Kaingang (Kaingang), Executive Director, National Association of Indigenous Women's Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), Brazil

  • Secretary Puyr Tembé (Tembé), First Secretary of State for Indigenous Peoples of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, and Co-founder of Ancestral Indigenous Women Warriors (ANMIGA), Brazil

  • Watatakalu Yawalapiti (Xingu), Female Leader of the Yawalapiti, member of the Women's Movement of the Xingu Indigenous Territory - MMTIX (Director of Territorial Ethnodevelopment of ATIX and Coordinator of Political Articulation of the National Association of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), Brazil

2:05 PM - BREAKTHROUGH JOURNALISM: STRATEGIES FOR COVERING THE CLIMATE CRISIS

  • Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!, Turtle Island/USA

  • Amy Westervelt, Executive Editor/Drilled, Costa Rica

  • Catalina Ruiz-Navarro, Journalist and Director of Volcánicas Magazine, Mexico

  • Elizabeth Kahurani, Network Director Africa, Global Strategic Communication Council, Kenya

  • Rahma Diaa, Journalist, Founder of the Climate School Initiative, Egypt

  • Moderation and comments by Antonia Juhasz, Investigative Journalist, author, lecturer, Washington, DC, Turtle Island/USA

3:05 PM - WHAT’S AHEAD: COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE - PART 1

  • Brianna Fruean, Climate Activist and Founder of Samoan chapter Pacific Climate Warriors, Pacific Islands/Aotearoa/New Zealand

  • Colette Pichon-Battle, Vision and Initiatives Partner for Taproot Earth, Lawyer and Climate Justice Activist, Turtle Island/USA

  • Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation), Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action, Canada

  • Galina Angarova (Buryat), Executive Director, SIRGE Coalition, Siberia

  • Thilmeeza Hussain, Director, United Nations Regional Commissions New York Office,  Maldives/USA

  • Vitória Pinheiro, Executive Director of Palmares Action Lab, Policy expert and Activist, Brazil

4:15 PM - WHAT’S AHEAD: COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE - PART 2

  • Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation), Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator, Turtle Island/USA

  • Jacqueline Patterson, Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project, Turtle Island/USA

  • Natalia Greene, Global Director of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), Ecuador

  • Shirley Krenak (Krenak), Founder of the Shirley Djukurna Krenak Institute, Co-founder of ANMIGA, Brazil

  • Tasneem Essop, Executive Director at Climate Action International (CAN-International), South Africa

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