BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4108-997f354020ed92d0533bef4338a2268b@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260602T195202Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T190000 SUMMARY:Rhiana Gunn-Wright: “Climate Change is Everyone’s Fight–Including Yours! ” DESCRIPTION:\nRhiana Gunn-Wright\, one of the leading architects of the Green New Deal\, is at the center of creating lasting\, inclusive soluti ons to combat climate change. While she works to engage older generation s in fight against climate change\, she sees the struggle as primarily g enerational. Young people will bear the brunt of the crisis so they must lead the fight for change. In this lecture\, she will discuss her work as a climate activist and policy expert and inspire the Penn State stude nt community to join the fight for creating just and urgent responses to the climate crisis.\n\nIn 2019\, Gunn-Wright was included in \;Time  \;magazine&rsquo\;s list of the &ldquo\;15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change.&rdquo\; She is currently the director of climate policy at the Roosevelt Institute\, and a member of the Evergreen Advis ory Board. She started a career in public policy after graduating from Y ale \;magna cum laude \;in 2011. In the summer of 2013\, she ser ved as a White House policy intern in First Lady Michelle Obama&rsquo\;s Office\, and in 2015\, she became a Design Research Fellow at Education al Credit Management Corporation in Minneapolis. Rhiana also worked as t he Policy Analyst for the Detroit Health Department headed by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed\, and then served as the Policy Director for El-Sayed&rsquo\;s 2018 Michigan gubernatorial campaign. After El-Sayed&rsquo\;s loss\, she joined New Consensus\, a D.C.-based think tank founded by Demond Drumme r\, a Chicago-based grassroots organizer\, and Saikat Chakrabarti\, form er chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.\n\nFor m ore details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/mid_rhianna-gunn-wright/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Rhiana Gunn-Wri ght, one of the leading architects of the Green New Deal, is at the cent er of creating lasting, inclusive solutions to combat climate change. Wh ile she works to engage older generations in fight against climate chang e, she sees the struggle as primarily generational. Young people will be ar the brunt of the crisis so they must lead the fight for change. In th is lecture, she will discuss her work as a climate activist and policy e xpert and inspire the Penn State student community to join the fight for creating just and urgent responses to the climate crisis.

In 2019 , Gunn-Wright was included in Time magazine’s lis t of the “15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change.&rdquo ; She is currently the director of climate policy at the Roosevelt Insti tute, and a member of the Evergreen Advisory Board. She started a career in public policy after graduating from Yale magna cum laude  in 2011. In the summer of 2013, she served as a White House policy intern in First Lady Michelle Obama’s Office, and in 2015, she be came a Design Research Fellow at Educational Credit Management Corporati on in Minneapolis. Rhiana also worked as the Policy Analyst for the Detr oit Health Department headed by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, and then served as t he Policy Director for El-Sayed’s 2018 Michigan gubernatorial camp aign. After El-Sayed’s loss, she joined New Consensus, a D.C.-base d think tank founded by Demond Drummer, a Chicago-based grassroots organ izer, and Saikat Chakrabarti, former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria O casio-Cortez of New York.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/e vent/mid_rhianna-gunn-wright/

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