The month of March is Women’s History Month, a unique period that marks women’s historical and contemporary achievements across the world. In line with this significant moment and the impetus for gender equality, the African Women’s Leadership Series celebrates African women’s outstanding contributions and examines the prevailing challenges that still require intensified investments for change to empower women.

For our third instalment in the series, we are celebrating African women leading on climate justice. As the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report recently published in February 2022 shows, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change particularly in Africa, but our guests are climate champions that have overcome the barriers. They are Prof. Okorodudu-Fubara, one of the founding mothers of environmental justice research and education who laid the foundation for climate justice work in Africa, and Ms. Joyce Msuya, a United Nations leader who has worked hard to advance climate justice in global policy and Africa. Our honorees will share their journeys, challenges, and advice to emerging young female climate leaders. There will also be an opportunity to ask them questions.

Welcome remarks will be given by Nellie Kamau, a student in the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program at the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.

Our moderator is Ms. Elsabé Boshoff. She is an emerging female African leader in environmental justice whose work has supported the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Co-hosts: This event is brought to you on behalf of the Liu Institute Network for Africa (LINA), and the Collective for Gender+ in Research, hosted at the University of British Columbia’s Office for Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE), all within the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA).

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