Climate Migration, Explained
Event time:
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 12:00pm
Location:
Online
Speaker/Performer:
Dr. Maya Prabhu and Nora Massie
Event description:
Climate Migration, Explained
Description
Dr. Maya Prabhu joins Nora Massie (Davenport ‘22) to explain how climate change is altering the places communities can call home.
This is one of five Live Explainers being held during Yale Earth Week 2021. To register for these and other events, please visit earthweek.yale.edu!
Speakers:
Maya Prabhu
Maya Prabhu, MD, LLB is an Associate Professor in the Division of Law and Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine; she serves as a Consulting Forensic Psychiatrist for the CT Dept of Mental Health and Addiction Services. She has been a psychiatrist in the Yale New Haven Hospital refugee clinic and has extensive experience conducting forensic evaluations of refugees and asylum seekers. Her teaching and scholarship focuses on the intersection of mental health and displaced populations, climate change and mental health and international legal instruments that advance health. She obtained her medical degree at Dalhousie School of Medicine and her law degree at McGill School of Law. She completed her adult psychiatry residency and forensic psychiatry training at Yale. Prior to her specialty training, she was an attorney with Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York and the UN Oil for Food Investigation. She has worked with numerous international development agencies and organizations.
Nora Massie
Nora Massie (she/her/hers) is a member of the Yale College Class of 2022 from New York City, double majoring in English and Environmental Studies. Nora is passionate about organizing around a wide range of issues relating to environmental justice including sustainable urban planning, universal healthcare, immigration, gender and sexuality equity, and education reform. Outside the classroom, Nora works for the Office of Sustainability as a Sustainability Liaison to her residential college (Davenport) finding ways to locally bridge Yale’s commitment to sustainability and equity and for the Office of Gender and Campus Culture as a Communication and Consent Educator improving the campus social and sexual climate. Nora has also been a member of Yale’s Community Health Educators since her first year and plans to become a middle school or high school teacher after graduation.
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General Public