Friday, May 24, 2024
9:00 AM EST
The Global Indigenous Youth Perspectives panel webinar is for Indigenous youth from around the world to share the challenges which Indigenous communities in their region are facing and the solutions which are or should be implemented. Panelists are also invited to share their own experiences and to speak about how this has impacted themselves and/or their community. The presentations from the speakers can be about what they shared at ECOSOC or it can be a different topic completely. This panel is being hosted by the Inter-Council Network and is scheduled to be on May 24th, 2024, at 9 a.m. ET.
Panelists
Megan Dicker is an Inuk youth from Nain, Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada. She is a social change enthusiast and a climate advocate, speaking on national and international platforms about protecting the land and the importance of having Indigenous youth in decision-making spaces. Megan has led Inuit youth leadership programs in northern Labrador in the Tongait Mountains, connecting youth to their ancestral homelands for cultural and leadership activities. She is currently studying Sociology at Carleton University and starting part-time work with the Yellowhead Institute.
Charitie Ropati (Yup’ik & Samoan) is a 22 year old education and environmental activist who worked to implement an accurate and inclusive sub-curriculum of Indigenous peoples in Western pedagogy in Alaska. She is a researcher, scientist and engineer who studies the intersections of plant ecology, permafrost, and cultural resilience in coastal Native communities at Columbia University in the Griffin Lab and is an Indigenous woman in STEM. She also works on the Co-Production of knowledge and is a member of the Earth Network at the Columbia Climate School. She is also a recent graduate from the school engineering at Columbia. She was awarded Champion for Change by the Center for Native American Youth for her work in education and she has been been featured and nationally recognized for her advocacy in Teen Vogue, The Malala Fund, The Guardian and elsewhere.
Asami Segundo is an indigenous youth leader from the Ikalahan-Kalanguya ICCA in Northern Philippines. She is a licensed forester and a skilled Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialist and played a crucial role in supporting participatory community mapping of indigenous territories and ICCAs (Indigenous and Community Conservation Areas) in her province. Her work includes conducting capacity building for indigenous communities in forest management and community development. Currently, she serves as the regional coordinator for the ICCA Consortium Southeast Asia. She is also a founding member of the International Indigenous Youth Forum on Climate Change, working to ensure that indigenous youths’ perspectives are included in global discussions on climate policy particularly in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.