Valery Molay is a Climate Justice Policy Expert, Activist and currently Programme Manager at “Women Engage for a Common Future”. Valery’s passion for tackling inequalities has inspired her to work in climate and racial justice. Valery completed a BA honours degree in Politics, International relations, Philosophy and Social justice and a Masters degree in Environmental Policy from University College Dublin. Valery has been involved in designing and delivering training and other support to embed a climate justice lens to the collective response to climate change in the youth sector. Through her many work and activism, Valery engages a vast spectrum of stakeholders, from young people, to civil society, to political principals from around the world. In May 2019, Valery was selected as one of Ireland’s two UN Youth Delegates. She dedicated her one-year term to highlights young people’s perspective on climate justice, descent work and mental health and inequalities. Valery has previously sat on the expert group on membership, diversity and inclusion for the European Youth Forum and was the chairperson of the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR). Valery is currently a Programme Manager with WECF
Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education: Climate Justice, the missing voices
Date: Wednesday 19 March, 12.30-2pm
Location:
Online via Zoom
Join us for the first session of our 2025 webinar series: "Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education". The session kicking off this year's series is entitled "Climate Justice, the missing voices" and will be held on Wednesday, 19th March, online from 12.30-2.00pm.
Climate change is one of the major crises of our times. As educators, we seek to address gaps in our knowledge, acknowledge bias in our understanding and spotlight voices from diverse groups affected by the issue. This webinar will equip educators to address some of these gaps when we educate about Climate Change and Climate Justice. What are the consequences and risks for women and marginalized communities to be left out of the picture? How should their experience of environmental collapse guide our Development Education/Global Citizenship Education programmes?
We will introduce concepts of “intersectional feminism”, climate justice, and the differential impact of climate change on marginalised communities. Speakers will include those working on climate justice from a variety of perspectives to illustrate and translate these abstract notions into a real-life context locally and globally. Participants will be equipped with more perspectives on climate justice and a deeper understanding of the experience of those directly affected by climate breakdown. Participants will also have time dedicated to a Question & Answer session.
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Biographies
Moderator
Speakers
Vanessa Conroy is the Project Officer of ‘Feminist Communities for Climate Justice’, a joint project between the National Women’s Council and Community Work Ireland aiming to put a gendered, feminist and community work lens on climate justice. She has worked as an occasional lecturer and academic tutor in Maynooth University’s Department of Applied Social Studies, teaching on environmental policy, climate justice, intersectional environmentalism and the connection between gender and the climate crisis. Her MA research in Social Science (Rights and Social Policy) was a feminist policy analysis of the then-current Climate Action Plan (2021).
Sumaya Mohammed is a passionate young climate justice activist with a proven history of mobilising and inspiring change. She co-founded the Students’ Climate Action Network (SCAN), a national network of students and teachers advocating for climate justice, which earned her recognition, alongside her colleagues, a Highly Commended award from the Young Environmentalist Awards for the project “Pull the Brakes/Climate Action Organisers.” Her work not only focuses on empowering young people to become active citizens and advocating for policy changes to address the climate crisis but furthermore ensuring quality/climate education for all. She has recently been elected as Associate General Secretary for global organisation, “Somalis for Sustainability” and is an advisor to the Youth Climate Justice Research Project
Claire Kenny is a Policy Assistant at ILMI (Independent Living Movement Ireland) and has worked with ILMI since January 2021. Her role involves working on various projects and research such as ILMI’s housing network. In 2018 Claire graduated with a B.Sc. honours degree in Applied Biology and Biopharmaceutical Science from GMIT. As a very proud Disabled woman who faced some of the barriers encountered by many disabled people Claire finds it very rewarding and fulfilling to work for an organisation who embraces the social model of disability and be a part of such a dynamic hard-working team. Claire believes it is fundamentally important that disabled people are involved in a meaningful, authentic way in all facets of society with our contributions valued and our rights respected and looks forward to helping make this happen in international development as well as a Director of CBM Ireland.
