2023 WLP #4: Pacific Islander Indigeneity & the Environment

This session will focus on issues impacting the Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander community-particularly around environmental developments, impact of tourism, and the intersection between identity and the environment.
Speakers include:
🔹Meeyoung Tawerilmal, Advocate, ASP (Moderator)
🔹 Lauren Swaddell, Senior Associate, The Pew Charitable Trusts
🔹 Angelo Villagomez, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
🔹 Esther Wozniak, Manager, International Fisheries at The Pew Charitable Trusts
🔹 Laakea Stone, Legislative Correspondent/Appropriations Aide, Office of Senator Mazie Hirono