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SUMMARY:Biodiversity through Diversity: A Green Careers Panel
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second annual green careers panel featuring local environmental leaders working in a variety of green careers.\nThis event will feature a series of questions prepared in advance, but there will be an opportunity for audience Q&A.\n \nMeet our Panelists:\nMelina Damian\nMelina is an experienced plastic pollution researcher and a published author in the field. She has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University, and a graduate diploma in environmental education. She currently works at Ontario Nature as a communications coordinator, and she also teaches a course at Centennial College on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development. She has worked and volunteered for different environmental organizations, including Wildlife Preservation Canada, Toronto Wildlife Centre, FoodShare, and the Canadian Organization for Tropical Education and Rainforest Conservation.\n \nJason Robinson\nJason is the Youth Program Facilitator for Ecosource’s Peel Environmental Youth Alliance project and the Policy Specialist for the Community Climate Council. Jason holds a Master in Environmental Studies, with his area of concentration in Ecological Economics and Honours BA in Business and Society in the environment and policy analysis streams, both from York University. With a passion for sustainability metrics and local climate action significantly impacting marginalized communities, Jason has led workshops and seminars on the interconnection of human, economic, and environmental systems. He has also volunteered with organizations that tackle BIPOC and LGBTQ+ issues in the tech sector.\n \nJoseph Pitawanakwat\nJoe is Ojibway from Wiikwemkoong, married with one daughter. He is the Founder & Director of Creators Garden, an Indigenous outdoor, and now online, education-based business focused on plant identification, beyond-sustainable harvesting, and teaching every one of their linguistic, historical, cultural, edible, ecological and medicinal significance through experiences. His lectures and intensive programming are easily adaptable to make appropriate and successfully delivered to a variety of organizations, including over 100 first nations communities, 20 Universities and 18 colleges and dozens of various institutions throughout Canada and the United States and beyond. He has learned from hundreds of traditional knowledge holders and uniquely blends and reinforces it with an array of western sciences.\n \nIf you have any have any accessibility or facilitation needs, please feel email commclimatecouncil@gmail.com\n
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