A worldwide panel discussion on storytelling as a way to process climate fear and grief, resolve conflict and imagine a way forward together. Moderators Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman have been on a five-year journey to listen to the stories of people who are searching for creative solutions to climate crises in their regions of the world. Their forthcoming book, Last Chance Road, is an urgent present-tense story documenting their journey to interview individuals on the frontlines of climate change.
Lipi Rahman is one of the founders directly involved in the evolving of Badabon Sangho. She has been supporting the organization with since its inception and is currently acting as Executive Director and General Secretary of Executive Committee. She was born and brought up in an educated Muslim family. She earned a Master’s in Political Science from University of Dhaka.
Mamun Ur Rashid also works with the national women’s rights organisation Badabon Sangho in Bangladesh, advocating for human rights and climate justice. He was born and brought up in the southwest coastal region at the belt of the Bay of Bengal, where people are continuously fighting with climate induced violence and displacement, mobilizing, organizing, and educating vulnerable women, equipping them with tested tools and methods and helping them to be resilient.
Anahí Haizel De la Cruz Martín is a Maya photographer. She was born in Ticul, Yucatán studied high school at the Rodríguez Tamayo Educational Center. In 2018, she participated in a group exhibition Mujeres, Movement and Perspective, on the main trellis of the State Center of Fine Arts of Mérida, Yucatán. She was a fellow of the Young Creators 2019-2020 program of the Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in the Visual Arts Photography Area. She has published her photographs in the magazines La Ojarasca, Revista Sinfín, in the Italian magazine La Macchina Sognante, as well as in the Mexico News Daily newspaper and the Diario de Yucatán. Haizel accompanies and documents processes of struggle for the vindication of the Mayan language and culture as a member of the Assembly of Defenders of the Maya Múuch ’Xíinbal Territory.
Pedro Uc Be is a poet, teacher, and defender of the Maya land in Yucatan, Mexico. He is a member of the Assembly of Defenders of the Maya Múuch ‘Xíinbal Territory, an organization that aims to defend its territory from the dispossession applied by mega-companies of renewable energy in the Yucatan Peninsula. Pedro is currently a professor at the School of Literary Creation of the State Center of Fine Arts (CEBA), a campus where he also studied.
Seifu Assegid was born and raised in the Eastern part of Ethiopia in Diredawa city. At age six, he lost his father in the Ethio-Somali War. His widowed mother was forced to fell trees to survive. Seifu then went to Cuba at age eight on scholarship as an orphan to study at a government-run primary and junior high school. Seifu returned from Cuba to finish high school with his sister in Tigray, where he witnessed the severe malnutrition crisis there in the ‘80’s. Currently, Seifu works for Save the Children as a Roving Humanitarian Communication Coordinator.
This event is part of San Francisco Public Library’s Summer 2025 series Everybody’s Climate 2025: Connect with others to address the climate crisis in ways that are meaningful to you, from poetry and music to science and practical action. If you wish to view bilingual subtitles, you may click the link below, download the YouTube Bilingual Subtitle extension, and follow the instructions to display subtitles in multiple languages.
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