Climate Activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner Visiting PCC

It is our pleasure to announce that next week Wednesday November 13th, Climate Activist and 2019 NCORE Keynote Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner will be at PCC.

There is a student-focused session from 2pm-4pm at Sylvania Campus in ST 108 & an open Talanoa Session (Keynote) from 6pm-7:30pm at Cascade Student Union.

Jetnil-Kijiner is a Marshall Islander poet, performance artist, and educator. She received international acclaim through her poetry performance at the opening of the United Nations Climate Summit in New York in 2014. Her writing and performances have been featured by CNN, Democracy Now, the Huffington Post, NBC News, National Geographic, and more. In February 2017, the University of Arizona Press published her first collection of poetry, Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter.

Kathy also co-founded the youth environmentalist non-profit Jo-Jikum, dedicated to empowering Marshallese youth to seek solutions to climate change and other environmental impacts threatening their home island. Kathy was selected as one of 13 Climate Warriors by Vogue in 2015, and was named the Impact Hero of the Year by Earth Company in 2016. She received her Master’s in Pacific Island Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

For more information you can contact the Sylvania Multicultural Center at Culture@pcc.edu or Sylvania MC Coordinator Makerusa at makerusa.porotesano15@pcc.edu.  You can also find more information on the flyer.