Join us for a lunchtime STEP Seminar with Julia Nerbonne, Executive Director of Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light. This is a public event presented by the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy; please email Olivia Schares for Zoom instructions.
About the Speaker: Julia brings her skills as an organizer and academic to build a vibrant movement for climate justice in over 400 Minnesota congregations. She has an undergraduate degree in Religion and her Ph.D. in Conservation Biology. She also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Conservation Biology Graduate Program at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on how to create powerful social movements.
Between 2011 and 2014, she was the founding Director of MN350. She has also spent over 18 years teaching ethics and sustainability studies to college students at the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs and at the University of Minnesota.
About the Seminar Series: The STEP Seminar Series is an interdisciplinary platform for scholars and practitioners to discuss research and policy issues in the broad domain of science, technology, and environmental policy. The seminar series provides an informal setting for feedback and engagement with ongoing research projects and policy debates. Interested speakers should email Olivia Schares for a list of available dates.