The 2022 Global Engagement Summit kicked off Thursday night with a Q&A featuring marine biologist and environmental policy expert Ayana Johnson. Johnson was the keynote speaker for the annual GES summit, a social innovation conference where delegates can engage with each other, business leaders and nonprofit organizers to develop their existing enterprises and spark ideas.
Global Engagement Summit will return virtually this weekend after last year’s conference was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual summit on social entrepreneurship will be the first time the student-run group will convene since 2019, and delegates from countries including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India and Afghanistan will attend workshops, speaker events and connect with Chicago professionals.
Although most of the weekend’s agenda is reserved to GES members, Friday’s keynote speech by tech nonprofit Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani will be open to all Northwestern students.
“The whole goal of the summit is to help them grow their projects and enhance their impact and kind of change the world through them,” Charlotte Tauss, GES co-director and Weinberg senior, said.
America Rejoins World Accord to Limit Climate Crisis
NEW YORK, New York, February 21, 2021 (ENS) – The community of nations welcomed the United States back into the Paris Climate Accord on Friday with the approval of American conservationists, politicians on both sides of the aisle and thousands of non-federal climate leaders who launched America is All In, a coalition to drive a society-wide mobilization for bold climate ambition.
President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office, Jan. 20, 2021 (Photo courtesy Biden Administration)
On January 20, his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed the document that would bring the United States back into the Paris Agreement. The United States officially re-entered the legally binding international climate agreement Friday, and across America people marked this special day.