Points of Intervention Tour Speaker Panel

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2			6:30pm-8:30pm Mount Holyoke Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley	Speakers: Amira Odeh-Quiñones, Pashon Murray, Ahmina Maxey, Junior Walk	Link to Facebook Event		Speaker Bios
3	Name	Email	Do you have a car/are you willing to drive others? Y/N	Do you need a ride? Y/N	Pickup/dropoff location for rideshare (example: Haigis Mall at UMass Amherst)	Would you like to take the bus with others? At UMass Haigis Mall: Bus 38 to Mt. Holyoke runs at 5:15pm (arrive at 5:56pm) and 5:45pm (arrive at 6:26pm)	Pashon Murray: Working to reduce the carbon footprint of Detroit by revitalizing neighborhoods, Pashon Murray is finding solutions to re-use or recycle everyday organic waste. In fact, to Pashon, there is no such thing as waste, and she is on a mission to eliminate landfill use. Murray co-founded Detroit Dirt in 2010, a local composting company that is focused on creating a circular economy in Detroit. By diverting organic waste from landfills and turning it into compost, she can help make Detroit a leader in this area, and create a scalable model for other cities. She is passionate about integrating closed-loop systems for corporations, cities, and states across the nation. Pashon is a MIT Media Lab Fellow, a proud Detroiter, and continues to be recognized as a leader in the zero-waste movement.
4	Kerrin Hughes	kerrinhughes@umass.edu	Y	N		Y	Ahmina Maxey: is the US & Canada Regional Coordinator with the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA). She works to support communities that are fighting back against polluting industry, and advocating for zero waste alternatives. Her background is in environmental justice organizing, having worked for nearly a decade in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan to protect the health and environment of the community. Through her work with the Zero Waste Detroit coalition she helped achieve citywide curbside recycling, and watch-dogged the Detroit incinerator (the largest in the country) resulting in millions of dollars in fines levied against the facility. As Associate Director of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council, Ahmina worked at the city and state-level to improve Detroit’s air quality, leading to the passage of numerous laws protecting the environment and health of Detroiters. She is a 2007 graduate of the University of Michigan, 2014 recipient of the Sierra Club’s Bunyan Bryant Environmental Justice Award, and was apart of 2017’s Grist 50.
5							Amira Odeh Quiñones: Amira’s work in a campaign titled “No Más Botellas” at the University of Puerto Rico was successful in making one of their campuses the first Latin American University to ban the sale of bottled water. She has represented her country at the UN Climate talks and been a part of the Sierra Student Coalition training program, facilitating leadership workshops to youth in Puerto Rico and the United States.
6							Junior Walk: has been working with various anti-surface mining organizations in the Appalachian region for the past six years. He has done everything from lobbying on federal and state levels, gathering data for lawsuits against coal companies, and even getting arrested doing direct action on surface mines and corporate offices. Junior now serves as the outreach coordinator for Coal River Mountain Watch, a role in which he spends his time helping educate people about the effects coal extraction has had on his community. He has also been monitoring for permit violations and documenting ongoing surface mining operations on Coal River Mountain, the last intact mountain in the Coal River watershed.
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