GUESTS CYNTHIA LEUNG & JENNIFER ZHANG | 4 MARCH 2021 @ 6P EST

Cynthia is a seventeen-year-old high schooler and climate organizer. She's also the CEO and co-founder of Climate Science Communication for Youth. CSCY was created as a formal mechanism to mobilize for S7341. Inspired by the organizers around her, at the age of fifteen, she went to the law books section at the Grand Army Plaza Library to research, draft, and finally propose a climate justice education bill to her state senator, who liked the proposal and decided to have it introduced into both New York State Legislatures.

Although it failed in the 2019-2020 legislative session due to COVID-19, she's been mobilizing through coalition building to ensure that this bill is passed in the next few months. Her organization hosts the Model Curricula L.A.B. Program where they promote and empower youth, particularly young women and BIPOC, to propose their own climate justice education bills in their own states. She's also the appointed Children's Focal Point for the United Nations Environment Programme's Youth Constituency. Before doing all of this work, she was a youth representative at the United Nations where she delivered a speech at the High-Level Segment of ECOSOC.

Stick around from 7 to 7:30 for dessert where we’ll be joined by Jennifer Zhang, Executive Director of #TheWorldIsWatching!!

The World Is Watching is a global coalition demanding concrete actions to end police brutality and systemic racism in the US. We are leaders, foreign and domestic professionals, organizations, grassroots activists, and allies. Amidst the largest civil rights movement in history, we are strategically mobilizing the global community in the fight for justice.

- Explore their work, including From Our Eyes magazine, Issue Briefings, BLM Nobel Peace Prize nominating petition, and upcoming events at theworldiswatchingBLM.org

- Watch their next BLM Global Chats episode on March 16 at 2 PM EST on Instagram Live @theworldiswatching.BLM

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We Ate: CONGEE WITH CHAR SIU

Vegetarian or Vegan? No problem!

“POWERSHIFT” — A SEAT AT THE DINNER TABLE WITH NATALIA BONILLA & REBECCA IRBY

Come explore the world through great food and conversation.

Join NATALIA BONILLA + REBECCA IRBY every other Thursday for a delicious meal with meaningful, intimate talks on our shared humanity & the hardships/blessings tied to our culture, nation, politics, and current events. We welcome you to join us for dinner.

No seriously, we'll be eating, please join us for a meal!

MEET YOUR HOSTS…

NATALIA BONILLA is an award-winning international journalist, communications consultant & experiential producer with more than a decade working in over 12 countries. Her consultancy work provides feminine leadership, business strategy, communications solutions to international female-led and sustainability driven enterprises to increase their social impact worldwide. She holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of York, a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Puerto Rico and a Pg.Dp. in Conflict and Peace Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Bonilla has produced three documentaries and currently edits the positive social impact magazine Lumina.

REBECCA IRBY is the Founding Partner and President of PEAC Institute and Co-Founder + CEO of MIDHEAVEN Network. Over the last ten years, Rebecca has served as an education and technology consultant on diversity and cultural awareness initiatives with the NJ Department of Education, Rutgers University, the National Liberty Museum, Nagoya University, and many others. Rebecca also sits on an advisory board incorporating social skills training into the core programs of schools around the United States. She recently completed a cross-cultural communications textbook for the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. Additionally, she created business English communication curricula for some of the world's largest organizations, including the Red Cross, Toyota, and Mitsubishi. When not consulting on education initiatives, she works on social documentaries and charity events. She produced and debuted her first film 'That Day,' the story of a Hiroshima survivor, on August 6, 2013. Her last charity event was on March 2015, when she organized and rode in a 500km bike and run through the areas affected by the tsunami of 2011. Her last assignment was working as Dean of Special Education for BRICK Peshine Academy in Newark, NJ. With PEAC she has organized, trained, and facilitated youth forums to the NPT PrepCom in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as well as a High-Level forum in conjunction with the New Zealand Foreign Ministry and United Nations. Rebecca has spoken about nuclear abolition and heart-centered leadership at Harvard Law School, the Yale Policy Conference, The PyeongChang Global Peace Forum; the Free Minds Free People Conference; Busan Democracy Forum; and will be at Barger Leadership Institute (BLI) at the University of Michigan in 2021.

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