Cooper Climate Coalition and The New Republic present a discussion on the climate crisis in recognition of Climate Week NYC. Join The New Republic contributing writer Liza Featherstone as she moderates a discussion with New York State Assemblymember Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Dr. Genevieve Guenther on climate justice, policy, labor, and more.

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Liza Featherstone is a columnist for The New Republic’s online vertical, “Apocalypse Soon,” and an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms., and Rolling Stone among many other outlets. She has also authored several books including Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart and Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation, among other books.

An expert in climate communication and fossil-fuel disinformation, Dr. Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence and affiliate faculty at The New School, where she sits on the board of the Tishman Environment and Design Center. Dr. Guenther advises activist groups, corporations, and policymakers, and she serves as an Expert Reviewer for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

New York State Assemblymember Zohran Kwame Mamdani represents the 36th Assembly District and its neighborhoods of Astoria, Ditmars-Steinway, and Astoria Heights. As Assemblymember, he fights every day for a future where each and every New Yorker lives a dignified life where housing, energy, and justice are for the many, not just the few. He is proud to be the first South Asian man to serve in the NYS Assembly as well as the first Ugandan and only the third Muslim to ever be a member of the body.

The Cooper Climate Coalition, an open body of students, faculty, and staff at The Cooper Union, facilitates conversations, events, and student projects within the institution that center the Climate Crisis and its intersections with races, classes, genders, sexualities, histories, economies, political structures and more.