Environmental lawyer and Cal Poly Humboldt professor Jen Marlow will share stories, images, failures, and insights from her work supporting the people of Kivalina, Alaska, an Inupiat village, to lead their own preemptive relocation off a barrier island in the Chukchi Sea. She will connect her work in Kivalina to the origins and efforts of 44 Feet, a local project Jen founded focusing on the future of Humboldt Bay’s spent nuclear fuel site.

Jen Marlow teaches Environmental Law at Cal Poly Humboldt. She worked previously as an environmental lawyer in Anchorage. She has led several environmental organizations and projects including Three Degrees Warmer, a climate justice non-profit, and Re-Locate – a research collective partnering with Kivalina Alaska to support village relocation planning. In Humboldt, she organized 44 Feet, focusing on the spent nuclear fuel close to the Bay.

We expect it to be a very interesting talk and one that is relevant as sea level rise eats away at California’s coast. [Worth reading – California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline by Rosanna Xia, published in 2023].

 

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