Clinton Global Initiative 2026 Annual Meeting: Day One

President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, and Dr. Chelsea Clinton will convene the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative on September 22-23, 2026, in New York City, bringing together leaders from business, government, and civil society for a meeting focused on what’s working, and how we can bridge divides to solve our most urgent crises.

Day One | Day Two

Below is the agenda of public sessions. Private working sessions are held simultaneously. Breakfast begins at 7:30 am.

8:45 am - 10:15 am

Mainstage Session: How Do We Get It Right?

How Do We Get It Right?

The world is undergoing profound and troubling shifts — from rising conflict and natural disasters to declining support for humanitarian programs, rapid technological change, and growing fragmentation in how people understand truth. In moments like this, it’s easy to focus on what’s going wrong and expect a future defined by division and inaction. It is harder — but far more important — to choose action. This session begins with a simple but essential question: “how do we get it right?” At a moment when it is tempting to accept today’s challenges as inevitable, CGI begins from a different premise: that progress is possible when leaders choose action over cynicism, partnership over polarization, and long-term solutions over short-term thinking. Because progress requires more than diagnosing what’s broken. It demands a clear, compelling vision of what success looks like — and the commitments, collaborations, and courage to achieve it. Join leaders and pioneers who are turning that vision into reality and help build the future in which we get more right than wrong, one commitment at a time.

Participants

  • Stacey Abrams Lead, 10 Steps Campaign
  • Dr. Noubar Afeyan Founder and CEO, Flagship Pioneering; Co-Founder and Chairman, Moderna
  • Jared Bauer CEO, Seek Labs
  • Aisha Bowe CEO, STEMBoard
  • Megan Ranney Dean, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University
  • Dr. Carmen Rojas President and CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation
  • Olga Rudnieva Superhumans Center, Ukraine, CEO, co-founder

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Leaders Stage

Steering AI Innovation Toward Impact

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how institutions serve the public — from streamlining public services and measuring impact to predicting needs and accelerating discovery. While AI can dramatically improve efficiency, the decisions about who benefits, whose voices are represented, and what values these systems reinforce remain profoundly human. Algorithms optimized for efficiency rather than nuance — built on patterns of how things have always been, rather than aspirations for where we want to go — risk doing more harm than good. Can AI help us do more with less in a time of resource constraints, or is it risking widening inequalities?

This session will explore both the promise and the peril of AI as a tool for social good, equipping attendees with practical frameworks for responsible adoption — across government, nonprofits, and the private sector — so that equity and resilience become outcomes of innovation, not casualties of it.

Participants

  • Dr. Chelsea Clinton Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation
  • Sam Gill President & CEO, Doris Duke Foundation
  • Michele Jawando CEO, Omidyar Network
  • Kate Kallot Founder & CEO, Amini
  • Jamie Merisotis President & CEO Lumina Foundation
  • Wes Moore Governor of Maryland

10:30 am - 11:15 am

CGI Conversations Session

For The Win: Unifying Through Sports

Sports have opened doors diplomacy couldn’t. We’ll dig into how sports can be leveraged as a tool for bridging divides, shaping culture, and expanding equity.

11:30 am - 12:15 pm

CGI Conversations Session

Truth Behind the Trendlines: Reducing Gun Violence

Gun homicides in the U.S. are declining fast, and it isn’t luck. We’ll break down why community violence intervention is working and how to sustain it as funding shrinks.

Participants

  • Zayvion Hamiel Youth influencer- Artist, Shadow Trax Nation

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Leaders Stage

Who Leads Now?

As we navigate a disrupted world and examine how to get it right to build the future we want to see at a time where everything is at stake, we need real leaders — yet many in power are retreating from their commitments to social good. This session brings together influential voices from business, government, philanthropy, and the civic sector who are continuing to step up to drive social impact while also filling the leadership gap in a moment that demands it. Together, they’ll explore what leadership looks like when the old playbook no longer applies and what it takes to build trust across sectors, mobilize resources creatively, and act with urgency and accountability.

Participants

  • Ian Bremmer Founder and President, Eurasia Group & GZERO Media
  • AnnMaura Connolly President, Voices for National Service
  • Mia Mottley Prime Minister, Government of Barbados
  • Alex Soros Chair of the Board of Directors, Open Society Foundations

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

CGI Conversations Session

Waste Not: Creating Economic Value Through Circularity

Everyone agrees circularity is the future, until the switch means real cost, messy supply chains, and a business case that has to hold. We’ll share solutions that work and how to reduce waste while increasing profit.

Participants

  • Juvencio Maeztu CEO, Ingka Group | IKEA
  • Paul Polman Business Leader, Investor, Philanthropist

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Leaders Stage

Scaling Resilient Energy Infrastructure

The systems that power key aspects of our lives — from transportation to digital networks and more — were built for a different era. Climate change, geopolitical shifts, and accelerating AI are reshaping our world and demand a new energy infrastructure that is more resilient, adaptable, and designed for the future. Energy demand is expected to surge by nearly 50% globally over the next 20 years, primarily driven by industrialization in developing countries and a massive surge in overall energy consumption, especially as AI usage and capability rapidly scales. As our needs for energy increase, how do we get new energy right, protecting the planet while powering our lives at scale? In this session, private- and public-sector leaders will paint a picture of how they practice principles of resilience as they build the energy systems that will manifest our future.

Participants

  • Basima Abdulrahman Founder & CEO, KESK
  • Gracelin Baskaran Director, Critical Minerals Security Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
  • Nadia Calviño President, European Investment Bank
  • Bob Ferguson Governor, State of Washington
  • Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster Founder, President, and CEO - InterEnergy
  • Jose Luis Manzano Chairman, Integra Capital

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

CGI Conversations Session

The Long Case: Litigating for Lasting Change

The courtroom is now a primary stage for changemaking, not just a last resort. We’ll get into strategies for effective legal action for social impact, when to litigate versus organize, and how to adapt as the rules keep shifting.

Participants

  • Georges C. Benjamin, MD Executive Director, American Public Health Association
  • Rob Bonta California Attorney General, California Department of Justice
  • Skye Perryman President & CEO, Democracy Forward Foundation

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm

Leaders Stage

Unlocking New Capital for Change

The world’s biggest challenges are not limited by a lack of solutions, rather they are limited by whether those solutions can access the resources needed to grow and create lasting change. This session will explore how leaders are changing the way we think about investment by asking new questions: What do we value? Who takes on risk? And how can we ensure capital reaches the ideas and communities with the greatest potential for impact? Through examples from gender lens investing, catalytic capital, and public-private partnerships, speakers will share how new approaches are opening pathways for investment in solutions that traditional markets have overlooked. The conversation will explore how governments, philanthropies, investors, and entrepreneurs can work together to build a more effective and inclusive approach to financing change.

Participants

  • Giselle Carino CEO, Fòs Feminista
  • Janiece Evans-Page CEO, Tides
  • Roberta Metsola European Parliament, President
  • Karlee Silver CEO, Grand Challenges Canada
  • Jess Tomlin CEO, Equality Fund
  • Jean Van Wetter CEO, Enabel

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

CGI Conversations Session

Beyond Screening: Building Systems for Postpartum Mental Health Postpartum depression can affect any mom, yet stigma, isolation, and unequal access to care continue to leave too many suffering in silence. This session will explore how we can transform postpartum care – from breaking the stigma around asking for help to building systems that ensure every mom and family have the support, dignity, and care they deserve.

Participants

  • Dr. Chelsea Clinton Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation
  • Diana Ramos CA Surgeon General, Office of the California Surgeon General
  • Chrissy Teigen Founder, Cravings

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Mainstage Session: Keep Going

Keep Going

Across democracy, public health, humanitarian response, and other urgent fields, new and protracted crises are demanding attention and resources we just don’t have. Institutions and systems that put people first are under threat, and imperative progress is at risk of backsliding. Leaders are working amid constrained resources, eroding trust, and organized efforts to dismantle institutions and reverse hard-won gains. They must respond to immediate threats while continuing to build for the future—a challenge that demands courage, imagination, and stamina in equal measure. Members of the CGI community have always refused to give up or give in. This plenary will bring together people who have carried consequential work through attacks, setbacks, and uncertainty—some of them for decades. We will celebrate hard-earned wins, explore solutions that are making a real difference and have the potential to scale, and remind ourselves that progress always begins by the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other.

Participants

  • Anne Aslett CEO, Elton John AIDS Foundation
  • Heather Gerken President, Ford Foundation
  • Bernadette Meehan CEO, Wikimedia Foundation
  • Daniel O’Day Chairman and CEO, Gilead Sciences
  • Maria Ressa Nobel Peace Laureate, Co-Founder and CEO, Rappler; Professor, Columbia University SIPA
  • Jason Rezaian Director of Press Freedom Initiatives, The Washington Post
  • Tristan Schukraft Founder & CEO, MISTR
  • Muhammad Yunus Chairman, Yunus Centre
Clinton Global Initiative
New York
09/22/2026 at 07:30AM

Fossil Free Drinks

After the year we’ve had, we all deserve a drink. The first few rounds are on us.

​New venue. After three years underground at Nothing Really Matters, we’ve come up in the world — one flight, but still. This year we’re at Tanner Smith’s, 204 W 55th Street. Please note the change. If you show up at the subway station out of habit, you will find a subway station.

​Socialize, drink, and plot the downfall of Big Oil. Same agenda, better ventilation.

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Fossil Free Media
New York
09/21/2026 at 08:00PM

Unplug OpenAI

Big Tech wants to use AI to replace the working class and make themselves rich. To do this they need to build data centers across the country that raise our utility bills, pollute our communities, and worsen the climate crisis. People see clear as day that Big Tech’s vision for the future means our communities are destroyed, the working class is broke, and our planet is cooked. Our government has the power to protect us from Big Tech by passing data center moratoriums and regulating AI. That’s why ChatGPT executive Greg Brockman invested $25 million into Trump’s super PAC earlier this year, making him Trump’s top donor. Join us to rally against OpenAI’s massive data center buildout, their support for authoritarian leaders, and to demand our elected officials protect our communities and our future.

4:00pm - Meet Up and March at Sarah D Roosevelt Park (Chrystie St and Houston St)
5:00pm - Rally at Open AI Offices 295 Lafayette St, Manhattan

Part of the Unplug AI Week of Action.

Climate Defenders
New York
09/21/2026 at 04:00PM

Journalism is an Effective Climate Solution

Good climate journalism can have real-world impact. It can expose wrongdoing, prompt official action, bring attention to people who have been underserved or marginalized, and help audiences understand and critique possible solutions.

​This session, presented with the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now, will reframe journalism as a climate solution unto itself. Through clips, images, audio, and conversation, the journalists behind the work will discuss the stories they reported, the audiences they reached, and what the impact has been.

​During the second part of the session, we’ll discuss journalism as a powerful solution to climate change. How can strong reporting build public understanding and hold powerful institutions accountable? What hurdles stand in the way — including political hurdles but also funding hurdles for journalism? And how can journalists equip audiences with the information they need to effectively respond to the climate crisis?

​Speakers

  • ​Geoff Dembicki, Global Managing Editor of DeSmog
  • ​Jazzmin Jiwa, Investigative Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker
  • Nina Dietz, Journalist & Documentarian
  • ​Jason Spingarn-Koff, filmmaker, journalist, and Professor and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley
  • David Akana, Director of Programs at Mongabay Africa

​Moderator

  • Mark Hertsgaard, Executive Director at Covering Climate Now

SVA Theatre
333 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Covering Climate Now
Narrative Change Summit
New York
09/21/2026 at 03:30PM

Greenpeace International and The Sixty-Five Million Dollar Letter

The Sixty-Five Million Dollar Letter: a panel event on the price of free speech and advocacy under attack. Join us for an extraordinary moment of reminiscence and resistance, where members of the HALT DAPL 500 speak out for the first time following the $345 million judgment against the Greenpeace organizations.

This will be an extraordinary moment of reminiscence and resistance, where members of the HALT DAPL 500, speak out for the first time following the $345 million judgment against the Greenpeace organizations.

Back in November 2016, Greenpeace International co-signed the “Halt your support for DAPL” letter coordinated by BankTrack with 500+ others. That signature was the only relevant act resulting in a $65 million judgment against Greenpeace International.

Speakers:

  • Mads Christensen, Executive Director for Greenpeace International,
  • Natali Segovia, Executive Director for Water Protector Legal Collective,
  • Anne Jellema, Executive Director for 350,
  • Elizabeth Bast, Executive Director for Oil Change International,
  • Rebecca Brown, President & CEO for the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL),
  • Ryan Brightwell, Deputy Director and Banks & Human Rights Campaign Lead at BankTrack, and
  • Michelle Chan, Board Chair for BankTrack.

This event brings together people and organisations who spoke up and joined together to send the letter expressing concerns to the banks that financed the pipeline. As civic space comes under attack and protecting free speech and protest is more important than ever, this is a space to design how we can fight attempts by the fossil fuel industry to silence advocacy in support of Indigenous Peoples rights, water protection and climate justice.

When: Monday 21 September 2026 from 2-4 pm. (2-2:30 networking and refreshments, event starts at 2:30 pm)

Where: New York City Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street, New York City in the Meeting Hall.

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Greenpeace
New York
09/21/2026 at 02:00PM

Fight LNG: Creator and Activist Roundtable

At this roundtable, activist and content creators talk about LNG campaigns to:

​Identify narratives to test what is not working with the public, hot takes and create content.

​Brief overview by Oil Change International on energy economics and policy around LNG, data centers, and the US role as a fossil fuel enabler globally.

​Find common targets (proponents, governments, industry actors) to scheme campaign actions.

​Share learnings and good practices in the current political moment.

​This is our opportunity to stop near-term emissions before LNG infrastructure is built, and to show that transnational solidarity across North America can move faster than industry money and geopolitical pressure.

​Why is this happening? ​The fight against fossil fuels is moving offshore, and it is moving across borders. LNG is the fastest growing segment of the fossil fuel industry, on track for the largest LNG export-capacity buildout in history. It is sold as a “bridge to clean energy,” despite methane emissions and new infrastructure that can deepen dependence on gas for decades. Offshore extraction already supplies nearly one third of global oil and gas output, while 85 percent of new oil and gas discoveries in 2024 were located in just ten offshore fields.

​This is not only a US fight, but the United States is central to the global LNG boom. Canada, Mexico, and the US are expanding LNG export capacity along connected coastlines, waters, and gas systems, while Asia and Europe are becoming more LNG dependent. The same financial institutions repeatedly enable this expansion with 6 banks supplying 80 percent of US bank financing for LNG expansion between 2021 and 2023, totalling $51.2 billion.

​Building on the work of the Say No to LNG coalition in Canada, the Global LNG Working Group, Gulf South organizers in the US, Whales or Gas in Mexico, and the many local movements leading resistance, we will convene at NYCW to exchange ideas, align strategy and actions, and develop content that breaks beyond our echo chambers.

​Who is hosting this session? ​Jose Reyeros is a climate justice activist, working to advance solutions and amplify civil society efforts within policy networks. His advocacy efforts with the Chilli App focus on stopping fossil fuel expansion in the ocean and amplifying the science and storytelling needed to represent coastal communities and biodiversity in public narratives and policy. He brings years of campaigning experience to protect the Gulf of California from Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) infrastructure and build coalitions with grassroots and conservation networks across North America.

​”This year, I have joined lines with the Confronting CeraWeek network, supported protests in Mexico with the WhalesOrGas coalition and worked in communications + strategy with Say No to LNG in Canada. After the Santa Marta Transition Away from Fossil Fuels Conference, I bring ambition to connect activists, science and policy for ambitious progress for Just Transitions in the ocean and #MakeRichPollutersPay

​More about Keanu Arpels-Josiah

​Keanu Arpels-Josiah (he/him), is a youth climate justice organizer and activist born and raised on Munsee Lenape land in what is called New York City, and is currently working to build connections across various youth movements and fights from the local to the global. He’s been a core organizer and the policy co-lead with Fridays For Future NYC, where he’s advocated for action on climate justice and legislation on the local, state, federal, and international governmental levels since high school. In 2023, he was one of the lead organizers of the March To End Fossil Fuels, organizing with a multigenerational intersectional coalition to plan and mobilize for a 75,000-person march in N.Y.C., calling on President Biden to stop expanding and phase out fossil fuels. Currently, he also helps coordinate Fridays For Future USA in some campaign areas and works as an advisor to Sunrise Movement NYC’s electoral team.

​About Chilli

​Chilli is a digital action for climate and social justice. Every action on the platform takes under two minutes. We act as a hub for petitions, open letters, pressure campaigns designed for people who care but don’t have time to waste. chilli exists to close the gap between your audience knowing something is wrong and actually doing something about it.”

Location The Bench
49 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10013, USA

Oil Change International
New York
09/21/2026 at 01:30PM

Mind the Gap: Aligning Insurance, Policy, and Nature for Climate Resilience

Climate change and nature loss are reshaping insurance markets and widening the protection gap. More frequent and severe floods, storms, wildfires, and droughts are driving losses higher, while degraded ecosystems are reducing the natural protections communities rely on, from flood absorption to heat mitigation. Together, these trends are pushing climate-related insured losses up by an unsustainable 5% to 7% annually in real terms. This session will focus on practical solutions to close the growing insurance gap by aligning policy, regulation, finance, insurance practice, and investment in nature.

Hosted by David Kuhn, Corporate Resilience Lead, WWF-US and Josh Goldman Senior Director, Climate Communications, WWF-US

Opening remarks

  • Sam Medlock, Principal, Climate Risk Advisors

Speakers:

  • Lia Cairone, Director of Sustainability & Resilience at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget
  • Sarah Conway, Climate, nature, and disaster risk finance expert
  • Francis Bouchard, Managing Director, Climate, Marsh

Moderated by John Morton, Executive Managing Director, Nature Finance, WWF

Closing remarks:

  • Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)

With Rep. Kathy Castor (Fla.-14) (cancelled)

At the Fordham Law School at Lincoln Center.

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World Wildlife Fund
New York
09/21/2026 at 01:00PM

Harvard at Climate Week NYC

1:00 PM-2:00 PM Panel 1: Voluntary corporate climate targets: New data and a new tool

Do voluntary corporate climate targets make a difference? How have these targets evolved over time? In this session, Harvard researchers will launch a free and publicly available data set and interactive tool built to help researchers and practitioners probe voluntary climate action.

This session will provide an exclusive look at new insights from the study, covering Russell 3000 companies’ commitments and emissions data over 24 years.

Participants will walk-through the Salata Institute’s new database and interactive climate targets tool, learning ways to use this new resource for research, planning, reporting, and more.

2:30 PM-3:30 PM Panel 2: Do offsets have a future?

Carbon offset markets fail for many reasons – from adverse selection to moral hazard to over-crediting. Can these markets be repaired? Do offsets have any role to play in future decarbonization?

Hear from leaders grappling with these questions at a key inflection point for offsets, as the EU, CORSIA, and Singapore open compliance regimes to credits.

4:00 PM-5:30 PM Panel 3: Extreme heat: is it too hot to thrive?

As El Niño intensifies in the Pacific, communities around the world, from Dhaka to London, are already reeling from extreme heat.

In this session, we share findings from innovative research measuring the impact of extreme heat on workers in the informal labor economy in India, and platform (gig) workers in New York City, to raise tough questions: what strategies are working or need to be designed to address these new findings? How does evolving research challenge our notions of survivability? What legal and financial tools exist to address productivity losses and to protect workers’ health?

Join researchers from Harvard and CUNY in conversation with city officials, workers and corporations seeking to address these challenges globally.

5:30 PM-7:30 PM Networking Reception

Stay and connect with Harvard alumni, researchers, practitioners, and leaders at an evening reception co-sponsored by Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment, C-CHANGE, The Environmental and Energy Law Program (EELP) at Harvard Law School and The Business and Environment Initiative at Harvard Business School.

The reception will include brief remarks by Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Salata Institute, along with HACE representatives, on ways to connect with a growing community of alumni working to advance climate solutions.

If you would like to request accommodations or have questions about physical access, please contact [email protected] in advance of the event.

Vanderbilt University, Chelsea Square Campus
429 West 20th Street, New York, NY

Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
New York
09/21/2026 at 01:00PM

What Is "Just AI"?

Artificial intelligence is reshaping our communities faster than most public conversations can keep up. From the rapid expansion of data centers to growing questions about democracy, public health, energy, and economic justice, AI is one of the defining environmental justice issues of our time.

During Climate Week NYC, Building Equity & Alignment for Environmental Justice and One Square World invite grassroots leaders, funders, and movement partners to join us for a half-day summit exploring what it will take to build a just future that centers community power, democratic decision-making, and environmental justice.

Monday, September 21 @ Malt House – Harlem
471 West 126th Street (Between Convent & Amsterdam Avenues)

New York, NY 10027

Register for either session or stay for the whole summit

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

12-1pm Networking Hour (a light lunch will be provided)

Part 1 (1:00-3:00pm)

The $4.3 Trillion Question: Are Just Data Centers Possible?

The rapid expansion of AI data centers, driven in part by a growing demand for AI and other computing, is profoundly impacting the health, economies, and climate resilience of communities across the country. In response, residents are organizing to shape, challenge, and influence data center development, and to ensure their voices and concerns are reflected in planning and decision-making. As communities, public officials, environmental, tech organizations, and funders seek to respond to growing community organizing and debate, one question continues to emerge: Is there a model for developing good data centers?

This conversation will explore these questions from different perspectives, including what it would take for data center development to be responsive to community priorities, public needs, environmental and health concerns, and democratic decision-making.

Confirmed Speakers:

  • Melissa Miles, New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance – moderator
  • Denise Patel, WeACT for Environment Justice
  • Tristan Thomas, Alternatives for Community and Environment
  • KD Minor, Alliance for Affordable Energy
  • Khalil Shahyd, National Resources Defense Council

Part 2 (3:00-5:00pm)

Funding a Just Future in the Age of AI

If we want to build out a just future –one where our communities have the health, prosperity, and self-determination we need to thrive in a world shaped by AI– it has to be resourced the same way that our current AI systems have been. What scale of funding is needed, and what should that funding go toward? How can philanthropic and investment entities shift their funding to support a just and equitable future? Join us to hear from a panel of grassroots leaders and funders about how they are addressing these issues and advancing sustainability, economic justice, and democracy.

Confirmed Speakers:

  • KD Chavez, Climate Justice Alliance – moderator
  • Dwaign Tyndal, Alternatives for Community and Environment
  • Philip Eubanks, Climate Emergency Fund
  • Destiny Hodges, Generation Green
BEA for Environmental Justice
New York
09/21/2026 at 12:00PM

Frontline Resource Institute Climate Justice Hub

The strongest climate solutions are built with the people most affected by climate and environmental challenges.

The Climate Justice Hub brings together frontline leaders, advocates, policymakers, researchers, funders, students and other changemakers to build the partnerships needed to advance lasting, equitable climate solutions worldwide. Join the Frontline Resource Institute at Environmental Defense Fund for practical conversations, shared learning, and cross-sector collaboration as we explore how integrating frontline leadership into climate decision making leads to better outcomes for people and the planet.

​Schedule

Stick around between panels for networking and light refreshments. Lunch will be provided from 1:00-2:00 pm.

​10:00 – 11:00 am | Storytelling for Climate Justice

Exploring the power of storytelling for environmental justice and how organizations can tell their stories and protect their interests in a rapidly changing digital landscape.

Moderator: Dr. Margot Brown, Environmental Defense Fund

Panelists:

  • ​Lil Milagro Henriquez, Mycelium Youth Network
  • ​Nina Lutz, University of Washington, KTLN Consulting
  • Dr. Beverly Wright, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice

​12:00 - 1:00 pm | Data to Action: What Communities Know, How Cities Lead

Turning lived experience and local data into solutions for air pollution, extreme heat, and climate resilience.

Moderator: Sarah Vogel, Environmental Defense Fund

Panelists:

  • Ali Abazeed, City of Detroit
  • Brandi Jenkins, Beyond Petrochemicals Campaign
  • Valentina Rojas Posada, WE ACT for Environmental Justice

​2:00 – 3:00 pm | AI, Data Centers, and Community Power

Exploring AI’s environmental justice impacts and how frontline communities can maintain agency as data center development expands.

Moderator: Arif Ullah, Executive Director of A2

Panelists:

  • ​LaTricea Adams, Young, Gifted & Green
  • Dionne Delli-Gatti, Continuum Strategies
  • ​Dr. Katlyn Turner, University of Colorado Boulder, KTLN Consulting

​3:30 - 4:30 pm | Uplifting Frontline Voices in Research

Elevating frontline knowledge and community science to strengthen collaboration, climate research and people-centered solutions.

Moderator: Dr. Katlyn Turner, University of Colorado Boulder, KTLN Consulting

Panelists:

  • ​Dr. Robert Bullard, Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice
  • ​Rashida Ferdinand, Sankofa Community Development Corporation
  • ​Manuel Salgado, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
  • ​Dr. Beverly Wright, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice

​4:30 - 5:30 pm | Closing Reception

Fordham University at Lincoln Center
113 W 60th St, New York, NY 10023, USA

Frontline Resource Institute
New York
09/21/2026 at 10:00AM