Intersecting Futures: Gender, Health, Rights, and Climate Justice
Climate change doesn’t happen in isolation — its impacts cut across gender, health, human rights, livelihoods, and inequality. Women face disproportionate risks but also lead solutions, from water management to financial inclusion and entrepreneurship. Climate disasters inflict not only physical destruction but also deep mental health wounds — trauma, uncertainty, and loss. At the same time, green and sustainable technologies are reshaping how education, health, and creative industries engage with climate resilience.
This session will center intersectionality as a strategy for climate justice. Together, we’ll explore how community-led, cross-sector approaches — connecting gender equity, human rights, finance, and mental health — can deliver systemic, scalable solutions.
Speakers
Claire O'Donnell — Resource Mobilization Manager at Educate Girls, supporting award-winning efforts to expand education access for millions of rural girls in India.
Lelemba Phiri — Co-founder and Partner at ATG Samata, an award-winning investor and gender lens finance leader in Africa.
Leslie Wetzel — Development executive specializing in women’s economic empowerment with 20 years of global fundraising experience.
Pradnya Haldipur — Founder of Strategy.Creativity.Mentorship, a strategist advancing social good and fundraising across sectors.
What to Expect
Unpack intersectionality – Explore how gender, inequality, health, and rights intersect with climate change.
Center women’s leadership – Highlight women’s role in climate-smart entrepreneurship, water management, and financial inclusion.
Surface overlooked impacts – Discuss the mental health dimensions of climate crises, often missing in global conversations.
Bridge technology and equity – Examine how sustainable tech connects climate action with health, education, and creative industries.
Scale through collaboration – Consider how cross-entity partnerships can build inclusive, systemic solutions.
Why Join?
Reframe climate action through the lens of intersectionality and justice.
Gain insights from diverse sectors where climate impacts and solutions overlap.
Share experiences of building community-led, gender-responsive climate initiatives.
Walk away with tools for integrating equity, health, and human rights into climate agendas.
Who Should Attend?
Funders and policymakers working on gender, health, and climate justice.
Women leaders and entrepreneurs advancing intersectional solutions.
Practitioners in education, health, finance, and creative sectors linking to climate.
Anyone committed to tackling climate crises with equity at the core.