On Being live with Krista Tippett and Colette Pichon Battle
Thu, Jan 27, 12 pm
Minneapolis Institute of Art’s Pillsbury Auditorium
Free with registration
Please note: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required to attend this event. Masks are required at all times.
“[On Being] is about imagining a more beautiful, thoughtful, generous way of existing that is neither hopeless nor instrumental but is instead thoughtful and questioning and open.” —The Cut
Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, New York Times bestselling author, and National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett interviews climate activist and lawyer Colette Pichon Battle for a special live event and podcast recording. Ms. Pichon Battle is the Executive Director and founder of The Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, a non-profit, public interest law firm and justice center with a mission to advance structural shifts toward climate justice and ecological equity in communities of color.
About Colette Pichon Battle: Colette Pichon Battle is a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana. As founder and Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP), she develops programming focused on equitable disaster recovery, global migration, community economic development, climate justice, and energy democracy.
Colette worked with local communities, national funders, and elected officials in the post-Katrina and post-Deepwater Horizon disaster recovery. She was a lead coordinator for Gulf South Rising 2015, a regional initiative around climate justice and just transition in the South. In 2015 Colette was selected as an Echoing Green Climate Fellow, in 2016 she was named a White House Champion of Change for Climate Equity, and in 2018 Kenyon College awarded her an Honorary Doctorate. In 2019, Colette was named an Obama Fellow for her work with Black and Native communities on the frontline of climate change and she gave a TED Talk, “Climate change will displace millions. Here’s how we prepare.” In 2021, Colette was appointed a Margaret Burroughs Community Fellow. In addition to developing advocacy initiatives that intersect with race, systems of power, and ecology, Colette directs GCCLP’s legal services in immigration and disaster law.
Under Colette's leadership, the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy co-chairs the national Water Equity and Climate Resilient Caucus with PolicyLink, serves on the steering committee of the Ocean Justice Forum, and anchors the five-state, multi-issue initiative Gulf South for a Green New Deal. Colette also leads the Red, Black & Green New Deal, the national climate initiative for the Movement for Black Lives.
Colette serves on the boards of the US Climate Action Network and the Highlander Research and Education Center, is a member of the Movement for Black Lives policy table leadership team, advises the Kataly Foundation’s Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective, and chairs the Equity Advisory Group of the Louisiana Governor’s Climate Initiative Task Force.
About Krista Tippett: Journalist, National Humanities Medalist, and bestselling author Krista Tippett has created a singular space for reflection and conversation in American and global public life. She founded and leads the On Being Project (www.onbeing.org)—a groundbreaking media and public life initiative pursuing “deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy to renew inner life, outer life, and life together.” As the creator and host of the Peabody Award-winning On Being radio show, heard on over 400 public radio stations across the US, Tippett takes up the great animating questions of human life: What does it mean to be human, how we do want to live, and who will we be to each other? Her most recent creation is The Wisdom app. In its foundational course, Hope is a Muscle, she is student and teacher at once.
Tippett and her conversation partners—from theologians to social activists, physicists to poets—explore meaning amidst the ruptures and callings of twenty-first century life. The On Being podcast has been downloaded and played more than 300 million times and has been recognized as a “Best Podcast” by The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Podcast Academy’s Awards for Excellence in Audio, and iheartradio Podcast Awards, among others.
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