You're Invited to "Just Movement: Creating Equitable Pathways for Migration in the Wake of Climate Disaster"

How can our immigration system establish protections for those displaced by climate disasters?

Across the globe, the effects of climate change-related disasters are exacerbating humanitarian crises, widening inequality, and driving vulnerable populations to move. Most climate disasters will displace vulnerable people within their own borders, but a small minority of populations – representing millions of individuals – will be unable to find durable solutions locally and will seek safety and livelihood across international borders. To meet this challenge, we have the opportunity to craft lasting protections for those displaced across borders and equity-focused policies to help long-standing communities adapt their lives and livelihoods to a changing climate.

Join LIRS on Thursday, September 23rd on 4pm EDT as part of Climate Week New York 2021 for this timely discussion on the relationship between migration and climate change, hosted by one of the nation’s leading refugee agencies.

Meet The Speakers

Krish O'Mara Vignarajah

Krish O'Mara Vignarajah is the President & CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS). Previously, Vignarajah served as Policy Director to former First Lady Michelle Obama. As an infant, her family escaped civil war in Sri Lanka to build a life in Maryland.

Maxine Burkett

Maxine Burkett is a Senior Advisor to the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry where she focuses on loss and damage, migration, climate security, and issues related to Indigenous Peoples as well as island nations. Previous to her appointment to the Biden Administration, Burkett was a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i.

Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org and the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. He was a 2014 recipient of the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ and the Gandhi Peace Award.

Swapna Reddy

Swapna Reddy is a co-founder and Co-Executive Director of the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP). ASAP is a membership-based organization comprised of more than 100,000 asylum seekers from 150+ countries now living in all 50 U.S. states. ASAP works alongside its members to reimagine and build a more humane asylum system in the United States.

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