Join us for this exciting opportunity to participate in a panel discussion that generates awareness and mobilizes action on the interconnected issues of population growth, climate change, women's rights and global justice. 

Featured panelists:

Laurie Mazur, Director of the Population Justice Project

and

Vicky Markham, Director of the Center for Environment and Population.

We are at a pivotal moment - for world population, and for the environment that sustains us. Population growth and environmental issues are both are intertwined with gender and economic inequality. By making sure that all people are able to make real choices about childbearing, we can slow population growth and reduce human impact on the environment.

** Laurie Mazur is an independent writer and consultant specializing in population, environment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights issues. She is the editor of A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice & The Environmental Challenge  <http://islandpress.com/bookstore/details.php?prod_id=1945> (Island Press, 2009).  She is also the editor of Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment <http://islandpress.com/bookstore/details.php?prod_id=379>  (Island Press, 1994), a contributed volume that explored and articulated the Cairo consensus. With Michael Jacobson, she co-authored Marketing Madness: A Survival Guide to a Consumer Society <http://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Madness-Survival-Communication-Industries/dp/0813319811/ref=ed_oe_p>  (Westview Press, 1995), an indictment of excesses in advertising and marketing. Mazur founded and, for several years, directed the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights, an association of grantmakers that seeks to improve communication, foster collaboration, increase resources and enhance the overall effectiveness of grantmakers in this field.


** Vicky Markham has over twenty-five years experience in the fields of environment and population science, policy, and public outreach. She is founding director of the Center for Environment and Population, a project of the Tides Center, and started and directed the American Association for the Advancement of Science International Directorate's Program on Population and Sustainable Development. Ms. Markham has broad program development, management and implementation experience, and is the author and editor of  numerous books and publications, including Human Population, Biodiversity and Protected Areas: Science and Policy Issues; Water and Population Dynamics: Case Studies and Policy Implications;U.S. National Report on Population and the Environment andU.S. Population, Energy & Climate Change.

Contact: Neda Arabshahi neda.arabshahi@yale.edu 608-628-2781