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INTERGENERATIONAL CLIMATE ACTION: Learning from Stories for Change
June 11 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
INTERGENERATIONAL CLIMATE ACTION:
Learning from Stories for Change
Tuesday, June 11th
7-8:30 PM ET | 4-5:30 PM PT
Elders Climate Action is hosting our third annual intergenerational month in collaboration with our youth allies. We will celebrate intergenerational action throughout the month of June by highlighting the stories and efforts happening across generations. We hope you will join us for our round-table discussion series: Intergenerational Climate Action which will consist of two 90-minute discussion sessions on June 11 and 25th with conversations between elders, parents, and youth climate activists. These sessions are Learning from Stories for Change which will explore what calls us to act and tactics used by different generations; and Success through Collaboration which will cover how we can combine our voices for greater political power.
These events are co-hosted in partnership with ECA’s youth advisory council, which includes representatives from Change the Chamber Lobby for Climate and other amazing youth allies, some of whom you will meet at these sessions. And we will host an action party with the Climate Action Now App as part of this event. We hope you will plan to join us for both sessions!
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Our Roundtable Panelists:
Sarah Hill is a nonbinary young adult climate activist who is an active leader with Change the Chamber*Lobby for Climate, both as a climate fellow and as the Outreach and Response Coordinator leading an ESG campaign and responding to climate posts by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Sarah graduated this past May with their Masters in Energy and Environmental Management, earned from an online program through the University of Connecticut. Previously, they attended undergraduate classes at UConn’s Storrs campus, until colleges were moved online momentarily because of the pandemic. They finished their Bachelors in Environmental Studies online in 2021.
Sarah has extensive volunteer and work experience already, with all experience being in the environmental field and much of it being with nonprofits. They plan to continue their environmental work now that they are post-grad and may stay in the nonprofit sector.
Anna Mayer is a 17-year-old junior at School Without Walls High School in DC who has found a passion for climate justice advocacy. In 2022, she co-founded a hub of the Sunrise Movement, a national climate justice organization at her school, a hub that has since expanded to encompass all of DCPS. Under her leadership, the DCPS hub of the Sunrise Movement wrote a Green New Deal for Schools resolution. In January of 2024, the resolution was unanimously passed by the DC School Board of Education. Since then, Anna has led the organization of hundreds of DCPS community members to attend DC Council Hearings, lobby Council offices, and expand her work to all of DC.
In addition to advocacy, Anna is a full-time high school student, and a part-time employee at a DC cooperative preschool and a Takoma Park-based craft space for kids. She enjoys biking, knitting, and reading in her free time.
Zoe Fisher is a Junior at School Without Walls High School, a public magnet school in downtown Washington, DC. Zoe developed a passion for climate justice as she lived on the central coast of California until 2019. There, she experienced wildfires and mudslides, which gave her the drive to fight for the end of the climate crisis. In the fall of 2022, she co-founded her high school’s hub of the Sunrise Movement, which is an offshoot of the national youth-led organization dedicated to getting climate justice for all. Since then, the hub has grown to represent all DC Public School students as they have fought for a Green New Deal for Schools for DCPS. The resolution was unanimously passed by the DC State Board of Education in January 2024. Since then, she has co-led the effort of bringing students from all eight wards of DC to lobby and testify in front of the DC Council to get the resolution implemented across DC.
Zoe has also worked with the DC Chapter of the Sierra Club and the DC Youth Climate Corps, and helped start a climate activism group for elders in her DC neighborhood. In her free time, Zoe explores conservation efforts and the great outdoors with her Scout BSA troop and plays Ultimate Frisbee.
Dr. David Hill is a pulmonary and critical care physician with Waterbury Pulmonary Associates in Connecticut. He has been concerned about the environment since an early age and has lectured extensively regarding the impacts of climate change on health particularly related to lung disease. He has been a long-term volunteer with the American Lung Association serving in numerous leadership positions. Currently he is chair of the national public policy committee, and he will become chair of the National Board on July 1st of this year.
When not at work or volunteering, David enjoys spending time with his family, playing tennis, cooking, hiking, battling invasive species at his home in Connecticut, and assisting his youngest child in their search for a full-time position to perform meaningful work to address the climate crisis.
Kathryn Ringham is the current leader of the Elders Climate Action chapter in the Twin Cities and is a self-described Climate Feminist. She is a retired gerontological social worker who worked at the busy intersection of aging, mental health and families until 2016 within aging services in Minnesota including health care, caregiving and hospice care. A strong interest and alarm in the climate crisis was developed thanks to Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth” and his Climate Reality training resulting in the formation of the ECA chapter in 2020.
Other interests include strong volunteer work with ERA-MN to pass the Equal Rights Amendment at the state and federal level, an active role as grandmother to 5 local grands and a love of the outdoors with a cabin in northern Minnesota.
Gary Usrey worked for the US State Department as a Foreign Service Officer for 28 years. One of his assignments was to the Department’s Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. In that assignment he became the lead state Department official for the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement created to phase out the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). These substances, used as refrigerants, aerosol sprays, and in other applications, were seriously damaging the Earth’s protective ozone layer, which acts as a protective shield against harmful ultraviolet light.
As a result, worldwide use of CFCs was virtually eliminated, and the ozone layer has been steadily recovering, and is expected to return to average 1980 levels by 2040. The Montreal Protocol is widely considered to be the world’s most effective environmental agreement to date.
Gary’s work on this issue opened his eyes to environmental issues generally, and to the possibility of effective worldwide action to solve such problems through international cooperation. Gary is a co-leader of the ECA Virginia Chapter.
