Women and Climate
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NYC CLIMATE WEEK
GALA DINNER
Tues, Sept 24 | 6pm | 📍Anixi
Join us for a special evening where we’ll celebrate, honor, and empower the women driving climate action around the world. Our dinner is fully plant-based and held at the beautiful Anixi. No climate experience necessary.
Hosted by Michelle Li and Stephanie Korbely
Supported by:
Keynote
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Xiye Bastida
Executive Director | Re-Earth Initiative
Xiye Bastida is a 22-year-old Mexican climate justice activist and mobilizer. Through her Otomi roots, she champions Indigenous worldviews as a solution for the climate crisis. She was an organizer with Fridays For Future and is the co-founder of Re-Earth Initiative, an international youth-led organization that supports frontline youth across 27 countries. Xiye was the recipient of the 2018 UN Spirit Award and was named TIME100 Next in 2023. She earned her degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024.
Special Guests
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Shyla Raghav
Chief Climate Officer | TIME
Shyla Raghav is the Chief Climate Officer, TIME. She has had a long career working on both climate change adaptation and mitigation, with a focus on international policy and natural climate solutions. Her background includes serving as Vice President of Climate Change at Conservation International, and previously held roles at the World Bank, Adaptation Fund, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She was named an InStyle BadAss woman in 2019, a Grist Top 50 Fixer, a AAAS/IfTHEN Ambassador for women in STEM, and has been featured on CNN, Vice News, and Elle Magazine.
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Sylvia Earle
President and Chairman | Mission Blue
”Her Deepness”Sylvia Earle is President and Chairman of Mission Blue / The Sylvia Earle Alliance. She is a National Geographic Society Explorer in Residence, and is called Her Deepness by the New Yorker and the New York Times, Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and first Hero for the Planet by Time Magazine. She is an oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer with experience as a field research scientist, government official, and director for several corporate and non-profit organizations.
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Sherri Goodman
Secretary General
International Military Council on Climate & SecuritySherri Goodman is an executive and board member in international security, national defense, energy, environment, critical infrastructure, and scientific research organizations.
Sherri serves as Vice-Chair of the US Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board (ISAB). She is also the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security (IMCCS), representing over 40 military and national security organizations addressing the security risks of a changing climate. As the founder of CNA's Military Advisory Board, she is credited with educating a generation of U.S. military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her term, “threat multiplier,” to fundamentally reshape the national discourse on the topic. Her book, Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security is newly published in 2024 and now available.
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Wawa Gatheru
Founder & Executive Director
Black Girl EnvironmentalistWawa Gatheru is a GenZ climate activist passionate about cultivating a climate movement that is made in the image of all of us. In 2019, Wawa made history as the first Black person in history to receive the Rhodes, Truman, and Udall scholarships. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from the University of Connecticut and a Master of Science in Environmental Governance from the University of Oxford.
She is the founder and Executive Director of Black Girl Environmentalist, the only national organization dedicated to addressing the pipeline and pathway issue for Black girls, women, and gender expansive individuals in the climate sector. Under her leadership, BGE has grown as a trusted, national organization that has worked with 80 corporate and non-profit partners and hosted 120+ events across 12 HUB cities. BGE has been recognized in Vogue, the New York Times, NPR, Forbes, Essence, Teen Vogue, Black Enterprise, Fast Company, Axios, and more. In the summer of 2024, BGE launched the Hazel M. Johnson Fellowship Program - the first climate pipeline program created for and by GenZ of color. With a membership of over 2,000, Forbes has called Black Girl Environmentalist “one of the largest Black youth-led organizations in the country”.
Outside of her role at BGE, Wawa sits on boards and advisory councils for the Environmental Media Association, Climate Power, Sound Future, National Parks Conservation Association, and EarthJustice. Wawa is also an inaugural member of the National Environmental Youth Advisory Council of the US EPA - the first federal youth-led advisory council in US history. In her role, Wawa advises Administrator Reagan on how to increase the effectiveness of the EPA’s efforts to address a range of environmental issues impacting youth.
For her work, Wawa has been recognized as a Glamour College Woman of the Year, a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient, a Grist 50 fixer, a Young Futurist by The Root, a Climate Creator to Watch by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Public Voices Fellow by Yale, and was featured on the January 2023 digital cover of Vogue alongside Billie Eilish and 7 other climate activists.
Speakers
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Michelle Li
Founder
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Holly Paeper
President, Commercial HVAC Americas
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Rachel Delacour
CEO & Co-Founder
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Sally Ann Ranney
President & Co-Founder
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Carrie Ruddy
Chief Communications and Marketing Officer
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Stephanie Korbely
Community Builder
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Elaine Rubin
Board Chairwomen
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Zohra Zori
Board Member
Women and Climate
Rising Stars
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Nisreen Elsaim
Climate and Peace Activist
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Erin Garrity
Digital & Energy Services Account Manager
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Ashley Yong
Program Manager
Women and Climate
Program
Networking and Arrivals
6:00pm - 6:45pm
Seats Taken
6:45pm - 7:00pm
Programming
7:00pm - 7:35pm
Welcome from Stephanie Korbely
Opening Remarks from Michelle Li
Opening Remarks from ElaineRubin
Fireside Keynote with Xiye Bastida, Michelle Li
A Conversation on the Arctic with Sylvia Earle, Sally Ann Ranney, Shyla Raghav
Threat Multiplier book release with Sherri Goodman
Dinner
7:35pm - 8:05pm
Programming
8:05pm - 8:45pm
Welcome from Trane Technologies, Gold Sponsor, Carrie Ruddy
Careers in Building and Industry Decarbonization with Carrie Ruddy, Michelle Li
Women and Boards with Holly Paeper, Rachel Delacour, Zohra Zori
Rising Stars featuring Nisreen Elsaim, Erin Garrity, Ashley Yong, presented by Wawa Gatheru
Desserts and Networking
8:45pm - 9:30pm
Thank you to our supporters
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✨ GOLD SPONSOR ✨
Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator, solving sustainability challenges through innovation in the heating and cooling industries. Through our strategic brands Trane® and Thermo King®, and our environmentally responsible portfolio of products and services, we bring efficient and sustainable climate solutions to buildings, homes, and transportation.
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OUR VISION is to achieve a consciousness in action that we are one humanity, dependent on the Global Commons, the interdependent natural systems crucial to all life. OUR MISSION is to drive action on the Ice Crisis, prioritizing the Arctic and Antarctica.
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Sweep is the sustainability data management platform. Its market-leading, AI-powered software helps organizations understand all extra-financial data across their business and value chain to manage increasing disclosure requirements and take action to meet sustainable business goals.
We’re proud to have earned our first star through Oceanic Global’s BlueStandard for our efforts to protect our blue planet.
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