Jacqueline Patterson, national director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Environmental and Climate Justice Program, will speak at a brown bag lunch at 两性色午夜 University at East Liverpool on Wednesday, April 9, at noon, in the Blair Memorial Library, located in the main classroom building. The event is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
Patterson will present 鈥淎nother Way is Possible: Transforming a Profit Driven Society to a People Centered Sustainable Planet.鈥
Patterson will also meet at 3 p.m. that day with officers and members of the East Liverpool-Wellsville NAACP to present the national organization鈥檚 agenda on climate change and human rights. In the evening, she will spearhead the creation of a local action plan during a meeting with local chapter members.
Not only is Patterson the national director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, since 2007, she has served as the coordinator and co-founder of Women of Color United. She worked as a researcher, program manager, coordinator, advocate and activist for women鈥榮 rights; and led efforts to address violence against women, HIV and AIDS, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice.
Patterson served as a senior women鈥檚 rights policy analyst for ActionAid, where she integrated a women鈥檚 rights lens for the issues of food rights, macroeconomics and climate change, as well as the intersection of violence against women and HIV and AIDS. She served as assistant vice-president of HIV/AIDS programs for IMA World Health, providing management and technical assistance to medical facilities and programs in 23 countries throughout Africa and the Caribbean.
Patterson also served as the outreach project associate for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; a research coordinator for Johns Hopkins University; and as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica.
Her publications/articles include: 鈥淛obs vs Health: An Unnecessary Dilemma;鈥 鈥淐limate Change is a Civil Rights Issue;鈥 鈥淕ulf Oil Drilling Disaster: Gendered Layers of Impact;鈥 鈥淒isasters, Climate Change Uproot Women of Color;鈥 and a chapter, 鈥淓quity in Disasters: Civil and Human Rights Challenges in the Context of Emergency Events鈥 in the upcoming book Building Community Resilience Post-Disaster.
Patterson holds a master鈥檚 degree in social work from the University of Maryland and a master鈥檚 degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves on the Gender Justice Working Group of the US Social Forum; the advisory committee for The Grandmothers鈥 Project; the steering committee of Interfaith Moral Action on Climate Change; as well as on the board of directors for the Institute of the Black World and US Climate Action Network.
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