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This event on Transforming Energy and Economic Systems in the Latin American Green New Deal is organized and moderated by Thea Riofrancos, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College, and Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2. It is sponsored by Latin American and Latinx Studies, Sociology, and (SC)2
Panelists:
Camila Gramkow work as Economic Affairs Officer at ECLAC-Brazil Office. Author of "The Big Push for Sustainability." She has experience with project management; having designed, implemented and evaluated international cooperation projects mainly on climate change mitigation under the International Climate Fund and the Prosperity Fund. She has a doctorate in the economics of climate change from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and has worked in the area of sustainable development for over a decade.
Ruth Santiago, Attorney, Comite Dialogo Ambiental and other community and environmental organizations in Puerto Rico. Santiago is a resident of the municipality of Salinas in southeastern Puerto Rico where she has worked with community and environmental groups, fisher’s associations and other organizations for over thirty years on projects ranging from a community newspaper, children’s services, a community school, ecotourism projects to a rooftop solar energy pilot project. Ruth has been involved in the establishment of broad alliances to prevent water pollution from landfills, power plant emissions and discharges and coal combustion residual waste. She is part of a civil society initiative to promote solar communities and energy democracy called We Want Sun (queremossolpr.com). In addition to litigation in courts and administrative agencies, Ruth has co-organized environmental education projects, advised the Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve on watershed protection and land use issues. Most recently, Ruth has worked on cases related to energy projects and integrated resource plans. Ms. Santiago earned degrees from Lehigh University and Columbia Law School and has published articles on energy issues in Puerto Rico.
Tom Perreault, Professor and Chair, Geography and the Environment, Dell Plain Professor of Latin American Geography Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence. Tom Perreault is professor and chair of geography and the environment in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He also serves as the DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography. Perreault was named a 2018-21 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence. The position recognizes and rewards outstanding teaching at the University, and emphasizes the great importance of teaching and improving learning processes for students. As a globally known political ecologist, Perreault’s teaching focuses on the fields of political ecology, environmental justice, agrarian political economy and rural development. Since joining the University community in 2000, Perreault has developed a suite of seven courses that he offers in regular rotation. Professor Perreault’s research revolves around the relationship between people and their environments, with an emphasis on questions of social justice and political economy. In particular, his scholarship explores how rural peoples and their organizations access, manage, struggle over, and organize themselves in relation to nature and natural resources in the central Andes and western Amazon in South America. Perreault has written countless journal articles and book chapters. He has also edited a number of books, including Water Justice published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and The Handbook of Political Ecology published by London: Routledge in 2015. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.
External Links:
Energy Big Push (Grande Impulso Energia) Brasil
NACLA Report on the Americas