Naomi Klein, an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author was joined by Varshini Prakash, the co-founder and Executive Director of the Sunrise Movement, for a conversation on the launch of Klein’s book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal.
Cooper Union X Climate Week 2019 is a student-led series of events that provides space for The Cooper Union and its broader community to explore and engage in themes, across a variety of disciplines, which examine the many facets of the climate crisis.
This event was co-sponsored by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Sunrise Movement, The Strand Bookstore, The Intercept, and the Leap. Located in The Great Hall, in the Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University and is a Puffin Writing Fellow at Type Media Center. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap. With artist Molly Crabapple, she conceived and produced the short film “A Message From the Future”, which has been viewed nine million times.
Varshini Prakash is the Executive Director and co-founder of Sunrise, a movement of young people working to stop climate change, take back our democracy from Big Oil, and elect leaders who will fight for our generation's health and wellbeing. As an undergrad at the University of Massachusetts, she took on the fossil fuel industry by pushing her university to stop investing in coal, oil, and gas. She lead the campaign to victory after a 2-week long escalation involving thousands of students, alumni, and faculty. Varshini's work has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, TeenVogue, BBC, The Washington Post, and more.
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.
Along with organizing Cooper Union’s Climate Week programs and events in the fall, the Climate Coalition takes responsibility for fostering interdisciplinarity throughout The Cooper Union in support of environmental action.
