Climate Change Displacement Dialogue Speaker Series I

In collaboration with CIFAL York

September 25, 2024

12:00 -1:00pm

This series is eligible for students enrolled in the CRS Certificate and Diploma Programs.

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Climate Change Displacement Dialogue Speaker Series – CIFAL (yorku.ca)

Session I

Moderator: Nilanjana Ganguli

Doctoral Student, Climate Change & Health, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University

Nilanjana (Nell) Ganguli is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change at York University. Her work employs an intersectional systems-thinking and participatory approach to develop strategies for improving health resilience among women engaged in transactional sex in Malawi’s gendered natural resource economies, particularly in the Lake Chilwa basin. Nell holds a master’s degree in environmental studies and a bachelor’s in biotechnology from York University. From 2022 to 2024, Nell served as the project manager for the Dahdaleh Institute’s Complex Adaptive Modelling of the Health Impacts of Climate Change in Malawi project. She currently contributes as a graduate research assistant (grant writer) for the Malawi team and volunteers as a grant manager for the Leadership of Environment & Development-Southern & Eastern Africa (LEAD SEA).

Speaker: Dr. Yvonne Su

Director, Centre for Refugee Studies and Assistant Professor, Department of Equity Studies, York University

Topic: Redefining Climate Frontiers: Migration, Displacement, and Global Resilience

Dr. Yvonne Su is the Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Her research is on forced migration, climate change-induced displacement and queer migration. She has worked extensively with vulnerable communities in Southeast Asia and Latin America and the Caribbeans including refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, indigenous peoples and LGBTQ+ communities. Her work has been cited by the international organizations like the IPCC and IOM. Su has garnered over $8 million in research funding, including funding from NFRF and SSHRC. She takes an interdisciplinary, participatory and decolonial approach to scholarship that is focused on developing strong partnerships with local communities, NGOs, and policymakers.