Reframing the Climate Crisis Conversation

Karenna Gore is the founder and director of the Center for Earth Ethics (CEE) at Union Theological Seminary. The Center for Earth Ethics bridges the worlds of religion, academia, policy and culture to discern and pursue the changes that are necessary to stop ecological destruction and create a society that values the long-term health of the whole. She is also an ex officio member of the faculty of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. She is the author of Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America. https://centerforearthethics.org

Dr. Hildur Palsdottir is a climate activist, community organizer, public speaker, and co-founder of ReWild Long Island. She is also president of the Board of Trustees at The Science Museum of Long Island. Hildur has a PhD in Biochemistry for research in Cellular Bioenergetics and worked as a Research Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NYU Medical School. In 2017, she co-founded Sol Center in Port Washington. Hildur guides nature-based mindfulness and meditations at The Mindful Connection of Long Island in Merrick.