Lila Sax dos Santos Gomes leads Yarrow Global Consulting gGmbH, a non-profit consulting firm based in Germany that operates at the intersection of health and the environment with a special focus on intersectional feminist approaches to socio-ecological transformation processes. She is an experienced facilitator, project manager, and gender expert with extensive expertise in participatory methods and capacity building. She supports executives, teams, non-profit organizations, start-ups, and public administrations that promote an equitable organizational culture and strive for a better future for people and the planet. Additionally, she is engaged in research and lectures on the topic of intersectional feminism and gender in climate adaptation strategies.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany

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Rebecca Bratspies is a Law Professor at City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, and the founding Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform. She is an internationally recognized expert on environmental justice, food justice, and the human right to a healthy environment. Professor Bratspies has written scores of law review articles, op-eds, and other publications. Her most recent book is Environmental Justice: Law Policy and Regulation.

Professor Bratspies serves as an appointed member of the New York City’s Environmental Justice Advisory Panel, and US EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee. She is a scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform, Deputy Director for North American with the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment, and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Law in Context. She is Past-President of the American Association of Law Schools Section on the Environment. A former Luce Scholar, she is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a law degree cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.

Her environmentally-themed comic books Mayah’s Lot and Bina’s Plant, made in collaboration with artist Charlie LaGreca-Velasco, have brought environmental literacy to a new generation of environmental leaders.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: New York City

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PhD student (she/her) researching on the intersection of transdisciplinarity, art, and critical sustainability at the EcoArtLab. She is involved with the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern and the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB). She focuses on transdisciplinary research in art and climate science collaborations: Investigating methodologies, procedures, and practices to reach epistemic justice in terms of knowledge co-creation between artists, climate scientists, extra-scientific actors, and the more-than-human in the context of Switzerland. She integrates critical climate justice and feminist political ecology perspectives.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Switzerland

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Privatdozent an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Als Sozialgeograph hat er Arbeiten zu sozialer Inklusion und Exklusion, den Urban Studies, praxelogischen Theorien, der Methodologie der Sozialwissenschaften und der geographischen Gesundheitsforschung vorgelegt. Er entwickelte das Forschungsprogramm einer transaktionalen Anthropologie, die ein spezifisches Verständnis von Kritik als Mediation ausdrückt. Es eignet sich insbesondere zur Analyse lokaler Machtasymmetrien und Dissensszenarien. Jüngere Arbeiten beschäftigen sich mit Städten in Transition, Postwachstumsökonomien und Umweltgerechtigkeit. Zahlreiche Projekte kollaborativen Forschens mit Stadtverwaltungen, städtischen Zielgruppen und unter Einbezug Studierender.

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Städte

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Country/Region of interest/research focus: OECD, global North

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PhD student in Transdisciplinary Sustainability with a background in Agricultural Economics, Sustainable Development and Community Organizing as well as Fund Raising. Wrote and researched on Fast Fashion, then continued in the field of plastic bag usage, development of megacities that lead to more environmental degradation and economic gentrification that displaces people. Margaret Ojochide Aligbe is presently researching on the loss of marine biodiversity at the transdisciplinary level through the lens of methodological cosmopolitanism and ocean governance.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Europe, Africa and North America

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Lizette Grobler is currently a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the interdisciplinary DSI/NRF/CSIR Chair in Waste and Society at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). She is involved with the Clean Cities and Towns project. Previously she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the South African Research Chair in Property Law (SARPL), at the University of Stellenbosch, where she obtained her LLD in Public Law. Her publications in this regard concern transformative property law in the light of the Constitution. Her research interests include the intersection between legal theory and waste law, constitutional aspects of solid waste management, perceptions regarding waste, waste management and waste disposal behaviour, the causes and consequences of and current management of undesirable waste diversion behaviour, as well as best practices in waste management. A particular interest is the promotion of sanitation justice within the context of environmental justice.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: South Africa; Southern Africa; Global South

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Dr. Liv Yoon’s research is at the intersection of climate change, social inequity, and health, with a focus on community engagement work. As a social scientist, she approaches climate change as a sociopolitical crisis. Her research is focused on taking climate change as an opportunity to challenge the status quo and promote structural changes that alleviate social inequities that both led to, and are exacerbated by, the climate crisis.

Dr. Yoon obtained her Ph.D. at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in Sociocultural Kinesiology. Her training in socio-cultural studies informs her to think about bodies in sociopolitical context. Applied to climate change, this means thinking about how some bodies are considered more ‘dispensable’, and in turn, rendered more vulnerable to climate-related risks and pollution.

She is a Fellow with the New York City Panel on Climate Change – Health Working Group, a member of the Community Engagement Core at the Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan, and member of Columbia University’s Environmental Justice and Climate Just Cities (EJCJC).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: North America (but not limited to it)

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Hali Healy has co-authored and co-ordinated work on two EC funded projects on sustainable development. One of these was EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade, 2011-2014), a project that linked researchers from the sustainability sciences and environmental justice organisations (EJOs). On the basis of this work Hali has published several peer-reviewed articles, and co-edited a book, Ecological Economics from the Ground Up (Routledge, 2013). In 2016 Hali moved to South Africa to take up lecturing post at the University of Johannesburg in the department of Anthropology and Development studies. Since then, much of her research has focused on environmental injustice, post and decoloniality, commons resource management and the greening of the South African economy.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: South Africa, Global South, Europe