NH HWCA Past Events

Sarah Kelly is a geographer with fifteen years of experience in community-based research on water and energy equity. As an applied researcher, she was trained in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Sarah holds long-term research relationships with Mapuche-Williche communities in Chile, where she has investigated hydropower, cultural cartography, and Indigenous rights. In 2021, she co-founded the Energy Justice Clinic at Dartmouth College. Originally from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sarah is excited to expand upon local collaborations in New Hampshire and Vermont to support making the energy transition more just and accessible for all. Sarah's research is published in Energy Policy, Energy Research and Social Science, and Geoforum, among other journals.

Dr. Reinmar Seidler introduced the speaker and moderated the Q&A session. He teaches conservation biology, sustainability science and climate change at University of Massachusetts Boston, and serves as a member of the Steering Committee for the New Hampshire Network for Environment, Energy & Climate. His research focuses on impacts of climate change and other global change on biodiversity and people's livelihoods in the Eastern Himalaya.

This webinar is co-sponsored by the NH Network for Environment, Energy & Climate, The Colony Group, and The Nature Conservancy.

Currently living in Iqaluit, Nunavut (in the Eastern Canadian Arctic), Devora Neumark, PhD is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher, educator, and community-engaged practitioner with over 30 years of contemplative practice. Neumark is also a Yale School of Public Health-certified Climate Change Adaptation Practitioner. They completed an Arctic Winter College Fellowship in 2021 with a focus on climate-change induced migration. Neumark was a faculty member in the Goddard College MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program from July 2003 through May 2021, where they co-founded the Indigenous and Decolonial Art Concentration. Their Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s-funded research-creation PhD titled Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: Involuntary Displacement and the (Un)Making of Home was an inquiry into the relationship between the traumas associated with forced dislocation and the deliberate beautification of home. Neumark’s creative work includes projects about climate & environmental justice, and about beauty in the built environment for the forcibly displaced.

Stephanie Acker, MPA, is a Research Associate at the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute and an Assessment Measurement and Evidence Consultant at UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight. She has worked a local, federal, and international level to improve outcomes for vulnerable populations. Previously, Stephanie directed the Bureau of Homeless Services, Emergency Shelter, and Housing for the Boston Public Health Commission and served as a Policy Analyst and National Public Information Officer for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Stephanie was a United States Presidential Management Fellow. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Gordon College and a master’s in public administration from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, M.P.A., Ph.D. is an associate professor of Environmental Science with joint appointments in the College of Public Health and Global Change at the University of Arizona (UA). Dr. Ramírez-Andreotta is the Director of two co-created community science programs called Gardenroots and Project Harvest, partnering with EJ communities to answer their research questions. She is also the Director of the University of Arizona’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Superfund Research Program’s Research Translation Core, serving as a boundary-spanning individual and facilitating communication of research findings to all stakeholders. With a PhD in Soil, Water and Environmental Science and a minor in Art, she is a transdisciplinary researcher in the purest sense. She received a B.A. degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, a B.A. degree in Studio Art with a minor in Spanish, and a Master’s of Public Administration from Columbia University. She was the recipient of the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science, the 2018 Science and Engineering Excellence Award for Campus-Community Outreach for STEM Diversity, 14th Annual Karen Wetterhahn Award from NIEHS, selected for the 2016 U.S. – Mexico Border Health Commission’s Leaders Across Borders Program, and completed a Science and Art Communication Fellowship. Since 2020, she has been serving as an associate editor for Environmental Justice and Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology (as of May 2022 she now sits on the Editorial Review Board).is an associate professor of Environmental Science with joint appointments in the College of Public Health and Global Change at the University of Arizona (UA).

Semra Aytur, PhD, MPH, Co-Chair of NH HWCA’s Climate Justice Working Group, will be introducing the speaker and moderating the Q&A.

This event is co-sponsored by the Manchester NAACP and the NH Public Health Association.

Elizabeth Sawin is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive and an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health, well-being, equity, and economic vitality, and she is the originator of the term ‘multisolving’ to describe such win-win-win solutions. Beth writes and speaks about multisolving, climate change, and leadership based on systems thinking to local, national, and international audiences. Her work has been published in Non-Profit Quarterly, The Sandford Social Innovation Review, U. S. News, The Daily Climate, System Dynamics Review, and more. She has trained and mentored global sustainability leaders in the Donella Meadows Fellows Program and provided systems thinking training to both Ashoka and Dalai Lama Fellows.

Robert McLellan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Community and Family Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, will introduce Dr Sawin and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association.

Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH

Co-Director, Center for Health Equity Education & Advocacy (CHEEA), Cambridge Health Alliance, Health Equity Fellow, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Faculty Affiliate, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Instructor, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr Semra Aytur, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy at UNH, will introduce Dr Gaurab Basu and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association.

Ben Liu, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University, Member, Steering Committee, Climate Psychiatry Alliance

Jen Darnell, MD, PGY-2, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University

Max Galvan, MD, PGY-2, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

Rahul Malhotra, MD, Independent Practice, Summit, NJ

Presented in collaboration with the NH Psychiatric Association.

Caleb J Dresser, MD, MPH, Assistant Director, Climate & Human Health Fellowship, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Instructor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Suzanne Gaulocher, Associate Professor of Public Health at Plymouth State University, introduced Dr. Caleb Dresser

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association.