Seattle University School of Law’s Critical Justice Initiative (CJI) welcomes scholars and students from across the country to its next Organizing & Advocacy for Justice Virtual Speaker Series event, which features authors and activists whose work contributes to the pursuit of materially felt racial and economic justice. The webinar will feature Abby Reyes, director of Community Resilience Projects at University of California, Irvine, talking about her new book Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice. Interviewing Reyes is Tom Antkowiak, who directs the Seattle U Law International Human Rights Clinic, with commentary from Colette Pichon Battle, a climate justice organizer and award-winning lawyer who co-founded Taproot Earth, and Astrid Puentes Riaño, a UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and Professor, Berta Cáceres Environmental Law Clinic, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
Wednesday, April 16 at 3:00 pm PT/6:00 pm ET via Zoom