The Green New Deal: A Resolution to Save Habitable Earth
Submitted by Daniela Gioseffi
On Tuesday, November 12, 2019, from 7 to 9 p.m., The Green New Deal: A Resolution to Save Habitable Earth will be discussed and explained followed by a question and answer period open to the audience. Hosted by Summit Area Green Faith Circle, made up of several houses of worship of all denominations in our area, it will take place at Beacon Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, Downstairs at 4 Waldron St. Corner Springfield Ave., Summit, NJ.
The presentation will be by Summit Professors, Dr. Marian Glenn and Professor Daniela Gioseffi.
(above) Dr. Marian Glenn
Dr. Marian Glenn is Professor Emerita of Biology at Seton Hall University and a founding faculty member of Seton Hall’s Program in Environmental Studies. Dr. Glenn is President of the Trustees of the Rahway River Watershed Association, a member of Summit’s Environmental Commission, where she chairs the Green Energy Team, and is on the Advisory Board of the Association for New Jersey Environmental Commissions. She helped to set up the Summit Area Green Faith Circle, and Summit’s Community Garden.
(above) Professor Daniela Gioseffi
Professor Daniela Gioseffi is a climate activist, American Book Award winning author and Summit’s own widely published author. She was the first journalist to integrate Selma’s WSLA-TV in 1961, 3 years before the MLK Jr. Selma March. She’s been an eco-feminist since 1973. In her 1993 book ON PREJUDICE: A Global Perspective, was an essay by Al Gore on Environmental Racism. She edits Eco-Poetry.org, featuring great poets, with editorials, news, and links to issues like the Green New Deal, climate crisis and SunriseMovement.org. A documentary on her life titled Author and Activist, is screening at colleges, libraries, and theaters.
(above) Reverend Ronald Tuff
Dr. Glenn and Pr. Gioseffi will be joined by Reverend Ronald Tuff, Green Faith’s Black Church Engagement Director. With degrees from Wilberforce University (BA) and Fairleigh Dickinson University (MPA), he served as director of the Paterson Task Force, a community-based weatherization agency, for 15 years. He is an associate pastor at First Bethel Baptist Church in Irvington, NJ. He also served as 2nd Vice President for the New Jersey Black Issues Convention, a statewide leadership roundtable of organizations representing the Black community.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact AuthorandActivist@gmail.com.
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