With the looming 10 year-countdown to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), young people are calling for greater accountability, responsible decision-making and increased youth representation, particularly in response to climate change challenges and their future. The time to take longer lasting and more ambitious climate action in a post-covid world is now; but how do we transform our worries into tangible actions, and ones which are guaranteed to change our systems?
Join Human Geographer and community organiser, Ishara Sahama, in an interactive session that explores what everyday, consistent actions you can take towards climate solutions and how such actions can be amplified through conversations, advocacy and a funky video-sharing app called IMPACTR.
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This class is taught by Ishara Sahama.
Ishara Sahama is a passionate social and gender justice advocate, community organizer and education facilitator. She currently works in the NFP/social enterprise space, providing strategic thinking, community organising, project management and advisory support. Ishara is part of the founding team and board for two upcoming enterprises which focus on:
1. transforming family businesses across Australian/New Zealand to for-purpose and for-planet businesses, and
2. supporting, empowering and up-skilling Womxn in family business by addressing issues concerning intergenerational equity and gender
inequities
Ishara is also a Climate Reality Leader and community organizer for UNAA Young Professionals Queensland and The One Women Project. She has presented and organized several presentations, panel discussions, forums on topics such as the climate crisis, sustainable development goals (SDGs), youth engagement, anti-racism, gender equity in urban planning and environmental concerns and, intersectional justice. Ishara has particular career interest in ensuring that culturally and linguistically diverse and gender-fluid groups are recognized and included in civic decision-making processes pertaining to socio-economic and urban development. Ishara believes that by addressing system flaws and improving them through shared decision-making with diverse citizen participation, can systematically dismantle socio-environmental injustices in rural-urban areas. She graduated at the end of 2019 with a BA Honours Geography and BSc Geographical Sciences, from The University of Queensland.
Ishara is a Womxn of Colour, with mixed Sri Lankan cultural heritage.
Pronouns: She/her