Cynthia
Lazaroff
Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy Session One - Inaugural Session: "Awakening to Action: Claiming Our Seat at the Table to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons"
September 26, 2020
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PST
Opening Blessing
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Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner Kumu Hula Puna Dawson offers a blessing for peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons
Welcome & Gratitude to Women Who Inspired Project
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Cynthia Lazaroff honors: Aida Akim-Escriva, Mahina Alexander, Aletta Gonzales, Kayko Tamaki and many, many more!
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Filmmaker Kayko Tamaki shares her story of awakening through music and the film she is making about her journey to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mentor Presenters:
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Kehkashan Basu, United Nations Human Rights Champion, Founder-President, Green Hope Foundation, Winner, International Children's Peace Prize
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Marzhan Nurzhan, Coordinator, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament for CIS Countries, Outreach/Education Coordinator for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Youth Group
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Mary Olson, Founder, Gender Radiation Impact Project
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Jessica Sleight, Program Director, Global Zero
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Natalia Zhurina, Research Officer, Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Coordinator, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Youth Group
Closing Remarks:
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Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez, who served as President of the United Nations Conference that Negotiated the Historic Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons in 2017