Sustainability Career Night: Voicing Movements

This event will showcase the ways professional communicators can reframe and re-story our understandings of climate justice and climate change. Learn how storytelling can advance sustainability, equity, and well-being in our communities, all while getting a taste of the career opportunities that exist at the intersections of creativity, communications and climate!

This event will consist of short presentations by a panel of sustainability leaders. Each speaker will discuss their journey to reach their current role, along with barriers they overcame along the way. Speakers will also provide recommendations for participants who are looking to start their careers in climate communication. After the presentations, each speaker will be in a Q&A breakout room where participants will have the opportunity to engage with them and ask questions. Students will have the opportunity to visit two facilitated breakout rooms during the evening. Finally, the speakers will engage in a panel discussion to finish up the evening.

RSVP required!

Sustainability Career Night is an opportunity for students from SFU, UBC, and other post-secondary students to learn from professionals championing sustainability in various fields.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This event is being put together and coordinated by organizations that work on the occupied, traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, Skwxwú7mesh, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Matsqui, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Qayqayt, and Tsawwassen nations. We greatly encourage community members to reflect on the lands they are tuning in from at this virtual event; learn whose lands you occupy through native-land.ca.

ACCESSIBILITY

This free event is taking place over Zoom with breakout room discussion for a considerable duration of time. We will have closed-captioning available, and attendees are free to opt in and out of the session as needed via muting mics and turning off cameras. If we can take further action to make this event accessible to you, please email Embark Sustainability’s program manager, Desiree Gabriel, at programs@embarksustainability.org.

COMMUNITY AGREEMENT

This event is hosted with the intention to provide an environment for students to learn about various career possibilities within the broad sustainability industry. By registering for this event, you are agreeing to be respectful towards each other, to using appropriate language, and being mindful of the space you are taking up amongst your peers.

The event organizers do not tolerate violence or aggression against others on the basis of race, ethnicity, place of origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious affiliation, or ability. Please also refer to people using the usernames they provide and do not assume pronouns/gender/knowledge based on someone’s name or video image.

If these agreements are broken by someone, we will have to ensure the safety and comfort of our guests by removing them from the event. Ultimately, we want you all to have fun and meet like minded peers who are interested in communication, justice and change!