Collaboration, Conflict, and Community: A Cross-Generational Conversation
Hosted by Third Act
This special multi-generational conversation will be hosted by the legendary leadership trainer and facilitator Akaya Windwood, Lead Advisor for Third Act, the organization working to mobilize people over 60 (who often have the resources and time) to really get involved in saving our future, including by supporting the brave activism of young people on the front lines of Climate Justice movements around the world. What do people from different generations need from each other to be able to work in tandem effectively to birth a new, far greener and far more just world in which all of us and all of life can thrive? With: world renowned, highly influential author and essayist Rebecca Solnit; sujatha baliga, restorative justice facilitator; Maddie Flood, of the The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights; and Charlotte Lenore Michaluk, 17, brilliant, award-winning, multi-disciplinary eco engineer and scientist.
Magnes Museum
March 28th | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm
Panelists
sujatha baliga
Restorative Justice Facilitator
sujatha baliga, JD, a Berkeley-based, prominent attorney, former Director of the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice and a 2019 MacArthur Fellow, has been a leading figure in the Restorative Justice Movement with an equal dedication to crime survivors and to people who’ve caused harm. She has helped communities across the nation implement alternatives to juvenile detention and zero-tolerance school discipline policies and also works to end child sexual abuse and intimate partner violence. A long-time Buddhist practitioner, she’s a lay member of the Gyuto Foundation Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Richmond, CA.
Charlotte Michaluk – Youth Keynote
Engineer, Scientist and Linguistics Researcher
Acnestis By Wind
Charlotte Lenore Michaluk, 17, is a brilliant young, award-winning, multi-disciplinary engineer, scientist and linguistics researcher, passionate about engineering sustainable solutions. Her development of technology for a hybrid wind and fossil fuel powered cargo ship has been widely recognized. Charlotte, who has been certified in freshwater bioassessment for over a decade (!), has been collecting and analyzing field data working with her state’s EPA to preserve ecologically critical wetlands and wildlife corridors in Central New Jersey. Through her organization, Acnestis By Wind, she has been researching using wind power to clean remote shorelines, developing curricula, and protecting wetlands.
Akaya Windwood
Lead Advisor
Third Act
Akaya Windwood, a widely renowned, highly experienced, award-winning activist, leadership trainer and facilitator who served as President of the Rockwood Leadership Institute for ten years, is the founder of the New Universal Wisdom and Leadership Institute, which centers human wisdom in the wisdom of brown womxn. She is also: on the faculty of the Just Economy Institute; Lead Advisor at Third Act; and director of the Thriving Roots Fund. Akaya is the author of: Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times (2022).
Rebecca Solnit
Author and Activist
Rebecca Solnit, one of our nation’s most influential writers, thinkers, historians and activists, is the author of 20+ books, including: Orwell’s Roses; Recollections of My Nonexistence; Hope in the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. She is also co-editor of Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility (coming April 2023) and writes regularly for the Guardian, serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International, and just launched the climate project Not Too Late.
Maddie Flood
