Hi Bioneer,
Each year, the Bioneers Conference serves as a platform for esteemed leaders, researchers, and activists across various disciplines to participate in conversations around pressing topics and address contemporary challenges. These illuminating discussions constitute our afternoon programming — a vibrant array of panels designed to empower the Bioneers community by facilitating learning opportunities and interactive sessions with people affecting real change worldwide.
The lineup for Bioneers 2024 is rapidly taking shape, and we're excited to unveil the initial release of thought-provoking conversations and panelists. (Stay tuned for our announcement of the remaining Bioneers 2024 sessions in late January.)
Keep reading to learn more about 2024 panels. Plus, check out an exciting pre-Conference tour and new addition to our keynote speakers lineup.
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Innovators Nourishing the East Bay
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm PT
Pickup and Dropoff from the Residence Inn Berkeley
$145 early bird rate
Bay Area Green Tours is excited to partner with Bioneers to present an inspiring and immersive pre-conference event. Our Urban Foodscape Tour: Innovators Nourishing the East Bay is a day-long excursion that will visit select innovative social enterprises and non-profit urban farms stewarding the land and supporting their community.
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You can view our full (and growing!) lineup of speakers here. |
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Colette Pichon BattleColette Pichon Battle, a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana, is an award-winning lawyer and prominent climate justice organizer. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when Black and Indigenous communities were largely left out of federal recovery systems, Colette led the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy (GCCLP) to provide relief and legal assistance to Gulf South communities of color. After 17 years at GCCLP’s helm, as frontline communities from the Gulf South to the Global South face ever more devastating storms, droughts, wildfires, heat, and land loss, she co-founded Taproot Earth to create connections and power across issues, movements, and geographies. |
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Below are just a few of the many fantastic panels coming to Bioneers 2024. Visit us online to see the growing lineup of afternoon sessions. |
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Indigenous Forum – Listening to Elders
Unlike “American” culture which fetishizes youth, most traditional cultures deeply honor the wisdom that comes with age and experience. Elders play treasured roles in their communities passing on knowledge, values and practices that keep tribal members healthy in mind, body and spirit. This historic panel features a discussion among four elders who have not only led their own tribes, but are highly influential in broader public conversations about healing, democracy, human land and water rights, and much more. They are cross-cultural bridgers, whose stories have shaped the course of history and will continue for generations to come. Join us to hear from some of the most inspirational elders we know.
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Advancing Reproductive Justice: Defending Abortion, Bodily Autonomy & Democracy
Hosted by: Taj James. Facilitated by Eveline Shen, former director of Forward Together and founder/President of Leading Courageously. With: Tenesha Duncan, Orchid Capital; Elisa Batista, Campaign Director, UltraViolet.
This session continues discussions from last year's Bioneers Conference on the intersection between Environmental Justice and Reproductive Justice movements. Highlighting the connection between the war on Mother Earth and the assault on bodily autonomy, leaders in reproductive health justice will explore defending access to abortion and reproductive healthcare while countering the broader threats to democracy.
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Mapping, Protecting and Harnessing the Mycorrhizal Networks that Sustain Life on Earth
With: biologist Merlin Sheldrake, Ph.D., author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our World; and Toby Kiers, Ph.D., Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Executive Director and Chief Scientist at SPUN. Moderated by J.P. Harpignies, senior producer, Bioneers Conference.
In this session, two leading researchers seeking to understand the critically important but long overlooked and understudied role of fungal networks in supporting life and regulating climate will discuss their work with the groundbreaking, visionary Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), an organization at the forefront of studying and protecting fungal networks all over the world and driving innovation in underground climate and biodiversity science.
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Closing the Gates to Hell: A Global Plan to Phase Out Fossil Fuels and Accelerate a Just Transition
Hosted by Cara Pike, Senior Communication Advisor to the Fossil Fuel Treaty, founder/Executive Director, Climate Access. With: Osprey Orielle Lake, founder/Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network; others TBD.
The climate crisis, largely fueled by oil, gas, and coal, has been historically overlooked in climate policies, but there's a shifting tide. A movement is burgeoning around a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, aiming to halt fossil fuel expansion, phase out existing production, and hasten a fair transition to clean energy. Explore the momentum behind this global initiative and its impact on reshaping the climate discourse, challenging industry norms, and pressing decision-makers to swiftly end the fossil fuel era.
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