Climate Week Events

Blessing of the Four Corners by Indigenous Lifeways & the Diné Tribe

Time: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

The attendees are able to offer support by good thoughts and prayers in the ceremony. The ceremony is being conducted to offer another line of defense in the fight against threats to the Diné people and our homelands.

The ceremony is led by Hataalii/Diné Traditional Practitioner, Lawrence Begay, who has been kind enough to offer this protection to Indigenous Lifeways and fellow frontline communities. We pray for solidarity and envision an abundant future while protecting what we hold sacred.

The ceremony will conclude with making the final water offering where we will head together to close the ceremony. This is where we maintain balance by offering back to Nahazdaan/Mother Earth in thanks to the protection we just prayed for.

UPROSE x CJA Convening

Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM

This 12:00-1:30pm lunch will be invite-only for CJA Member Executive Directors, CJA funders, and UPROSE/local funders. There will be a focus on member interconnections and the replicability of the GRID 2.0 and SPD designation as a tool.

COMMEMORATING 20 YEARS AFTER KATRINA

Workshop: How to Support Hip Hop Caucus Katrina 20 Programming

Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm

This will be a panel on the Katrina 20 year Anniversary. Feat. Jasmine Gil and/or another member of the Think 100% team.

Topics: A Just Recovery, a People-to-People Recovery, governance, resources, community. What does it look like when the calvary doesn't show up?

Screening of Underwater Projects

Time: 1:00pm - 1:45pm

A screening of Underwater Projects followed by a talkback panel about Hurricane Katrina's legacy and the lessons learned from that disaster.

Family Meal

Time: 1:45pm - 3:00pm

We'll have lunch together from a local black owned restaurant with gluten free and vegan options available.

Holding The Line Learning Circle

Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

We'll come together again for a Learning Circle about reclaiming our identity to get access to resources, the fracturing of our community by the changing definition of blackness, and what a people to people just recovery looks like.

Welcome Reception & Brunch

Time: 12:00 – 12:45 PM ET

Kick off the day with coffee, pan dulce, and lotería, and enjoy a warm welcome from our keynote speaker, Dr. Michael Méndez.

Raíces Fuertes Leaders' Roundtable: Strengthening Latino Environmental Infrastructure in a Time of Threats

Time: 12:45 – 2:15 PM | Capacity: 10

As our communities face escalating political threats — including the slashing of federal environmental and climate justice grants — Latino-led organizations must be prepared not only to survive, but to thrive. This roundtable convenes Latino environmental justice leaders from across generations and geographies to share perspectives on the challenges before us, and to envision the support systems our movement requires to remain strong.

Rooted in the launch of Raíces Fuertes, the next evolution of our Colaborativo40 program, this gathering will spotlight how we can build a resilient pipeline of Latino-led grassroots organizations that are structurally prepared, technically supported, and strategically connected to access federal, state, and local philanthropic funding.

Through dialogue and shared strategy, participants will help shape the future of our collective infrastructure, ensuring that frontline leaders are not left behind in this era of shrinking federal resources and increasing repression.

Panel: On the Frontlines of Nuclear Energy Colonialism

Time: 12:45 – 1:45 PM

Energy companies in nuclear, mining, milling, power generation, and infrastructure construction often displace communities, pollute homes, and undermine local prosperity, a reality of energy colonialism. This panel will explore its impacts and the fight for justice.

Sovereignty, Solidarity & Solutions: A Caribbean Just Recovery

Time: 2:30 – 3:30 PM

A conversation on the lived experiences and root causes of climate displacement in the Caribbean, led by UPROSE and allies.

Confronting Displacement in the Age of Climate Crisis

Time: 3:45 – 4:45 PM

Hear from national and local leaders on how extreme heat and migration are reshaping frontline communities.

All Day Art Build

Time: 12:45 – 5:00 PM | Capacity: 40

Location: 2nd Floor | Lead: Andrea Fortanel

Button Making and finishing the Mural

Climate Cocktails: Happy Hour & GreenLatinos Live! Awards

Time: 5:30 – 7:30 PM

Celebrate with us at the GreenLatinos LIVE! Awards, with music, cocktails, and an awards ceremony honoring climate justice champions — plus special presentations from Climate Power En Acción, GreenLatinos, and Sachamama.

Ongoing Workshops

Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm

Clothing Swap - A section for a clothing swap amongst attendees

Time: 1:00 - 4:00pm

Mending Workshop: Mending & Repairs powered Sew & Reap Studio - A mending for damaged clothes on the 3rd floor!

Panel 1: Global Impacts of Sustainable Fashion

Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Panelists: Camille Tagle, Cameron Russell, Veronica Pomee, and Nyiesha Mallett

Cocktail Break by Misguided Spirits & Cafe Balerica w/ DJ Sunny Cheeba

Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Panel 2: Accessibility to Sustainable Fashion

Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Panelists: Brownie Brown, Isaiah Dorty, Veronica Pomee, and Dominique Drakeford

DJ & Sips Break w/ Sunny Cheeba

Time: 4:00 - 4:20pm

Runway & Talk Back w/ the Designers

Time: 4:20pm - 5:45pm

Designers: Sameer Bhatia, Tatiana Alexandra & Rosa Delgado

Models: Amber Hancock, Coco Chen, Shawna George, Chania Price, Aisha Abdelmula, Ximena Balmori, Chantal Mallory, Carina De La Luz, Farid Mawanda, Martin Mazzie, and Kalissa Cambridge.

Dinner by Al-Noor

Time: 5:45pm

Time: 6:30pm - Doors Open

7:00–8:30 pm — Taina Asili's Fever Pitch Show

Each day Taína and several of her artist collaborators will walk an average of 15 miles to a city where they will give song offerings—moments of music and intention shared in partnership with local social and climate justice organizations. These offerings aim to resist the violence of climate devastation, incarceration, war, fascism, and genocide—while uplifting the movements for immigrant rights, racial and gender justice, and a livable future for all.

The highlighted artistic offering of this tour will be Asili’s full multimedia show Fever Pitch—a fusion of live music, dance, and video centered on climate justice—presenting at select community spaces for free or at a sliding scale, with a post-show panel conversation with local climate and social justice organizers.

As the journey continues, the core walkers will be sailed by boat from Newburgh to Haverstraw (9/21) on the historic Clearwater, co-founded by folk legend Pete Seeger to protect the Hudson River through environmental education and activism. From there the walk continues, culminating in NYC during New York Climate Week, with a final performance on the walk at UPROSE Brooklyn (9/26) the city’s oldest Latino community-based organization dedicated to climate justice.