Climate Week Symposium

Leveraging Circularity: Science, Business, and Community

Attend the event September 20, 2022 at 3 p.m. at Barnard College's event oval

About the Event

In celebration of Climate Week NYC 2022 — the biggest global climate event of its kind — Barnard College and the Columbia Climate School are hosting a symposium on the power of circularity in building a global, equitable climate response. 

Join us, along with Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Circular City Week,  on Tuesday September 20, 2022 to  discuss ways to make lasting and equitable changes in three key sectors where an adoption of circular practices is necessary: science, business, and community.

Together, with NYC policy makers, leaders, and climate activists, Leveraging Circularity: Science, Business, and Community will explore the science of circularity as a critical tool for reducing global emissions and discuss powerful steps to put circularity into practice, elucidating clear and relevant steps toward meaningful action.

Circularity is all around us - let’s name it and uplift it, as a powerful tool for supporting local economies and combating climate change.

 

Keynote Speaker

Mark Levine

Mark Levine is the Manhattan Borough President, serving since January 2022. Previously, he was the Council Member for the 7th District representing West Harlem/Hamilton Heights, Morningside Heights, and parts of the Upper West Side and Washington Heights. In his eight years in the City Council, Mark was a leading voice for tenants' rights, public health, and equity in our schools, transit, parks, and housing. As chair of the City Council Health Committee, Mark rose to national prominence as a leader in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to his work in the Council, Mark founded a community credit union in Washington Heights, and he began his career as a bilingual math and science teacher at a middle school in the South Bronx.

Barnard College & Columbia Climate School

Sandra Goldmark

Sandra Goldmark is a designer, professor, intra- and entrepreneur of regenerative and circular climate responses. Sandra serves as Director of Sustainability and Climate Action and Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College, and Senior Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Engagement at the Columbia Climate School. From 2013-2019, Sandra founded and operated Fixup, a social enterprise repair service dedicated to healthy and circular patterns of consumption. Sandra is a co-creator of the Sustainable Production Toolkit, a free climate action and sustainability resource for performing arts organizations, and serves on the Board of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, the BBC, The Sunday Times of London, The Daily News, Salon.com, and many more. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale University, Sandra is the author of Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet.

Featured Panelists

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Kate Daly

Founder and Director, Closed Loop Partners

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Rahsaan Harris

CEO, Citizen’s Committee For New York

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Ngozi Okaro

Founder and Executive Director, Custom Collaborative

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Bruce Usher

Professor, Columbia Business School

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Moderator: Michelle Tulac

Senior Project Manager, Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Roundtable Featured Guests

  • Adam Baruchowitz, Wearable Collections
  • Briana Seferian, Macy's
  • Thanos Bourtsalas, Columbia University 
  • Beizhan Yan, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
  • Rhonda Keyser, Sure We Can
  • Shaina Horowitz, NewLab
  • Imke Myrick, Circular Cities Week
  • Emma Hopson, Rheaply
  • Johan Schwind, UrbanX
  • John Holm, Pyxera Global
  •  And more!

Covid-19 Protocols

All guests must wear masks indoors on Barnard’s Campus. All non Barnard and Columbia ID holders must follow masking requirements and other College policies including but not limited to completing a full 10-day isolation period after a positive COVID test, meeting the College's COVID-19 vaccine/booster requirement and attesting to that by completing the Visitor/Vendor Health Screen form before coming to campus.