Voto Latino Hosts Event On Climate Change Challenges And Opportunities

By Megan (Weyrauch) Johnson on November 28, 2015

On November 17, Voto Latino teamed up with Defend Our Future — Environmental Defense Fund’s campaign to empower millennials in the fight against climate change — for a conversation on how young Latinos can take action to address climate change impacts affecting their communities, according to this press release.

Moderated by Univision anchor Enrique Acevedo, the conversation highlighted ways in which rising leaders could be active in combatting climate change in their own lives and within their communities, as well as learn about diverse career paths that are important to addressing the effects of climate change and protecting the environment.

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The event — Defending Our Future: Fighting Climate Change in South Florida – occurred on Tuesday, November 17 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. Free and open to the public, the event was followed by a mix and mingles reception with food and drinks.

The keynote speaker was Mustafa Ali, the Senior Advisor of Environmental Justice of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Other key players of the event included:

*Karina Castillo, Director of Programs, The CLEO (Climate Leadership Engagement Opportunities) Institute
*Eric Chappel, 2014 Environmental Defense Fund Fellow at Ocean Spray Cranberries
*Edwin Luevanos, Chief Executive Officer, Citizen Energy
*Alexis Calatayud, FIU Student Body President

Voto Latino, a nonpartisan organization that empowers Latino millennials to claim a better future for themselves and their community, is united by the belief that Latino issues are American issues and American issues are Latino issues. Voto Latino is dedicated to bringing new and diverse voices to develop leaders by engaging youth, media, technology and celebrities to promote positive change.

Learn more about Voto Latino on their website, on Facebook, on Google+, on Twitter and on Instagram.

Defend Our Future is building a movement to show our elected leaders that we aren’t waiting for them to act on climate change — we are taking action ourselves, in our personal lives, communities and government. Learn more here.

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