"Educating for a Just, Peaceful and Sustainable Future" is a comprehensive humane education conference highlighting the power and promise of humane education as a key to fostering a generation of solutionaries committed to environmental preservation, animal welfare and human rights.
Presented by Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers (HEART), the Institute for Humane Education (IHE) and Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots, the conference featured a dynamic program of speakers including Jane Goodall, DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute; Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute; Zoe Weil, president of the Institute for Humane Education; and many other acclaimed speakers. It was held on September 21, 2013 at New York University.
For more information, please visit www.humaneedconf.org.
Jane Goodall:
Zoe Weil:
Arun Gandhi:
Lightning Talks:
Featuring an introduction by Zoe Weil and Sarah Speare and talks by:
- Green Maps: Think Global, Map Local!; Wendy Brawer, founding director, Green Map System
- Caring for Life: Humane Education in China; Pei-Feng Su, chief executive officer, ACTAsia for Animals
- The Light: Humane Education in Elementary Classrooms; Betsy Farrell-Messenger, science educator
- Is Education for the 21st Century and Beyond?; Victoria O. Chiatula, Ph.D., assistant professor of education and program director, humane education, Valparaiso University
- The Pollination Project: Supporting the Superhero in You; Stephanie Klempner, co-founder, The Pollination Project
- Social Issues Books Clubs in Elementary Schools; Jocelyn Chiu & Courtney Piotrowski, elementary school teachers
- The Solutionary Schools K-12; Marion MacGillivray, educator and charter school consultant & Pierce Delahunt, peace advocate in education and the arts
- Changing the World: A Simple Shift in Perspective; Karen Giuffré, director, Voyagers' Community School
- When 1.3 Billion People Sneeze, the World Will Feel the Impact. The Remedy, Humane Education, is Coming to China; Rosana Ng, director of Greater China Region, Institute for Humane Education
- Silhouette Statements: Creating Positive Solutions to Global Problems; Andrea Neiman, art teacher, Columbia High School, East Greenbush, NY
- Humane Education in Brazil; Nina Rosa Jacob, animal rights activist; founder and president; Instituto Nina Rosa
- Solutionary Congress; David Sidwell, Ph.D., educator and nonprofit leader
- ARTS+ACTION – Cafeteria Waste Reduction in NYC Public Schools; Debby Lee Cohen, director and founder, Cafeteria Culture
- ISMOTION; Kristina Stoney, director, ISMOTION
