This panel will explore the challenges and implications of current global trends regarding climate change, climate justice, and environmental racism, and their impact on processes of forced migration and forced displacement at the U.S-Mexico border and beyond. Case studies will include Colombia's indigenous movements and communities of African descent.

Link to RSVP: http://bit.ly/WitnessClimate

Panelists:

Betty Ruth Lozano, Sociologist specialized in political philosophy at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, and PHD candidate in Latin American Cultural Studies at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, in Quito, Ecuador. Co-founding partner of Akina Zaji Sauda Foundation - Black Women's Connection.

Manuel Rozental, Colombian physician and activist with more than 40 years of involvement in grassroots political organizing with youth, Indigenous communities, and urban and rural social movements. Rozental is part of the collective Pueblos en Camino.

Amali Tower, Founder & Executive Director of Climate Refugees, Member, Expert Network at World Economic Forum. Humanitarian and human rights professional who has lived and worked in 18 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and helped refugee and migrant populations in the U.S.