Organizing & Advocacy for Justice Virtual Speaker Series with Abby Reyes
Seattle University School of Law’s Critical Justice Initiative welcomes scholars and students from across the country for our next discussion in the Organizing & Advocacy for Justice Virtual Speaker Series, which features authors and activists whose work contributes to the pursuit of materially felt racial and economic justice.
This webinar will feature Abby Reyes, director of Community Resilience Projects at University of California, Irvine, talking about her new book, "Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice," which examines the unsolved murder of her partner, an environmental activist, after he was threatened by big oil interests.
Tom Antkowiak, who directs the Seattle U Law International Human Rights Clinic will be interviewing Reyes. Commentary will be supplied by Colette Pichon Battle, a climate justice organizer and award-winning lawyer who co-founded Taproot Earth, and by UN Special Rapporteur Astrid Puentes Riaño, who teaches at Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México in Mexico City and who served as co-executive director of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) from 2003-2021.
Date: Wednesday, April 16
Time: 3 p.m. PT / 6 p.m. ET
Location: Virtual
A link to the webinar will be shared the day before the event with everyone who RSVPs. If you have any questions, please contact the Critical Justice Initiative Co-Director, Steven Bender, benders@seattleu.edu.