Come to Clark University on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m., as the university hosts Jacqueline Patterson, director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. This event will be held in the Jefferson Academic Center, Room 320. Patterson has worked as a researcher, program manager, coordinator, advocate and activist on issues such as women’s rights, violence against women, HIV and AIDS, racial justice, economic justice and environmental/climate justice. She holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in public health from John Hopkins University. She serves on the International Committee of the U.S. Social Forum, the Steering Committee for Interfaith Moral Action on Climate, advisory board for the Center for Earth Ethics and is on the boards of directors for the Institute of the Black World, Center for Story Based Strategy and the U.S. Climate Action Network.

This lecture is sponsored by A New Earth Conversation. This is an open-ended collaborative process among members of the Clark community, aimed at cultivating new ways or responding to the unprecedented conditions and questions raised by environmental degradation and climate disruption. The initiative focuses on three components, Faculty Conversation, a Council on the Uncertain Human Future and Climate Change Teach-ins.

For more information, visit clarku.edu.