Be part of “Purple Thread Guyana” for the second in a sequence of conversations about Extractivism within the Caribbean, which is able to highlight the communities and folks asking questions and organizing: “The Save Cockpit Nation motion and struggle in opposition to extraction in Jamaica.”
DATE: Thursday Could 4, 2023
TIME (PLEASE NOTE TIME ZONES): 6 PM Jamaica; 7 PM EST; 5 PM CST; 3 PM PST
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Panelists:
Ainsworth Smith, South Trelawny Environmental Company (STEA)
Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie, Jamaica Setting Belief (JET)
Esther Figueroa, Vagabond Media
Moderated by Beverley Mullings, Professor, Division of Geography, College of Toronto
Ainsworth Smith is an environmental advocate and eco-tourism tour information who’s deeply passionate in regards to the conservation of the Cockpit Nation panorama and the Jamaican setting by extension. Born and raised in Rock Spring, a small neighborhood inside the Cockpit Nation, Ainsworth developed a love for nature at a younger age. He spent numerous hours exploring the caves, learning the crops and animals round, and studying in regards to the delicate stability that exists within the pure setting. By means of his information of the caves and the numerous trails throughout Cockpit Nation, Ainsworth joined the crew of STEA over 20 years in the past as a Tour Information, displaying individuals the great thing about nature whereas educating them on the significance of conservation. As an eco-tourism tour information, Ainsworth has led numerous teams on caving, mountaineering, and birding adventures all through Cockpit Nation.
Ainsworth’s dedication to the setting isn’t just restricted to his work as a tour information. In his private life, he strives to stay as sustainably as attainable, decreasing his carbon footprint and advocating for others to do the identical. Whether or not he’s main a tour or chatting with a gaggle of scholars, Ainsworth is at all times desperate to share his information and fervour for the setting within the hopes of inspiring others to take motion to guard the Cockpit Nation, Jamaican setting and our planet.
Dr. Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie at all times had a ardour for the setting rising up. She developed this love even additional after finishing her BSc in Geography. She went on to finish her PhD in Geography on the College of the West Indies, Mona with a give attention to coastal geomorphology and paleoclimatology.
Previous to becoming a member of the Jamaica Setting Belief (JET), Dr. Rodriguez-Moodie labored with an environmental consulting firm as an Environmental Scientist and Local weather Change Vulnerability Specialist. She labored on tasks each domestically and regionally, for private-sector, authorities and multilateral companies. In her over 10 years of expertise, she developed particular expertise in conducting environmental assessments, hazard evaluation and mitigation, local weather vulnerability and danger assessments.
Since becoming a member of JET In July 2021 as their Chief Government Officer (CEO) she has led its environmental advocacy programme and labored on tasks geared in the direction of the safety of Jamaica’s pure sources and public well being.
Esther Figueroa Ph.D, is a Jamaican unbiased movie maker, author, educator, curator and linguist with over thirty 5 years of media productions together with tv programming, documentaries, academic movies, multimedia and have movie. Her activist movie making provides voice to these outdoors of mainstream media and focuses on the perpetuation of native and indigenous information and cultures, social and environmental justice, and neighborhood empowerment. Figueroa’s movies are screened and televised everywhere in the world and taught at quite a few universities. They embody Jamaica for Sale (2009), the award-winning function documentary about tourism and unsustainable improvement. Her most up-to-date function documentary Fly Me to The Moon (2019) is about modernity and the worldwide aluminum business. In 2020, she based the World Extraction Movie Pageant, the primary free on-line movie competition centered on the impacts of extractive industries. In 2013, Figueroa was Distinguished Author in Residence at College of Hawai’i English Division. Her environmental novel Limbo (2014) was a finalist within the Nationwide Indie Excellence Awards for Multicultural Fiction.
Dr. Beverley Mullings is Professor within the Division of Geography on the College of Toronto. Her analysis explores the ways in which up to date capitalist regimes are remodeling how racialized communities within the majority world reproduce themselves. Drawing upon decolonial, anti-colonial and feminist theories and debates, she is engaged in tasks that discover how transformations within the worth of labor, the emergence of latest city governance regimes, and the rising financialization of on a regular basis life are shifting the terrain of wrestle of traditionally devalued and dispossessed populations. A lot of her scholarship is situated within the Caribbean and its diaspora, a area that I view as an necessary place of geographical idea making given its historic position on the planet capitalist system.
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