A climate justice panel featuring the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development, Mr. Surya Deva, Professor at the Macquarie Law School and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University, Australia, and the Founder and the Chief Executive of Afghanistan’s largest UN-accredited climate change and environmental specialized NGO, the Environmental Protection Trainings and Development Organization (EPTDO), Abdulhadi Achakzai. Moderated by Director of tUrn, Kristin Kusanovich. A look at Afghanistan’s landscape of climate action and the climatic action of the landscape. Topics will include climate justice, women’s empowerment, climate change-related losses and damages, reparative policies, human rights, institutional obligations, and the perilous water crisis in Kabul.

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Co-presented with SCU School of Law

The crisis of our environment stems from a legacy of economic, technical and racially oppressive premises and many other forms of othering which have been pursued in the absence of ecological knowledge or concern for the present or future. We need ECOTACTICS more than ever. Coined in 1970,. Ecotactics (ē-ko tak tiks) n. Pl. is defined as “the science of arranging and maneuvering all available forces in action against the enemies of the earth.” Policies, practices, and protests can ensure more friends of the earth’s voices are heard. Humanity shall make a u-turn, but not without exposure, engagement and education. Learn at tUrn. RSVP

Welcoming Ayako Huang, Jed Lindholm, Sandra Waddock, & James Stoner to tUrn!

Sustainable thought and action leaders from multiple institutions of higher education share strategies and tactics for helping us make a u-turn in both curriculum and purpose in business education. All panelists collaborated on the 2025 volume from Routledge entitled Breakthroughs in Sustainable Business Education: Change-makers in Action, edited by Morgane Fritz, James Weichert, isabel Rimanoczy and Linda Irwin.

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Speaker Bios:

Dr. Ayako Huang is a scholar and academic leader in sustainable management, artificial intelligence in education, and emotional intelligence. She directs the Sustainable MBA program at Maharishi International University and has over a decade of experience designing innovative curricula in online and hybrid environments. 

Her research advances AI-enhanced pedagogy, coaching, and climate-conscious leadership to transform business education for global sustainability.

A contributing author to Revolutionizing Sustainability Education (Routledge, 2022) and Breakthroughs in Sustainable Business Education (Routledge, 2025), Dr. Huang has presented award-winning workshops at the Academy of Management. Recognized with the Wege Award for Outstanding Achievement, she is committed to integrating UN PRME principles, accreditation standards, and human-centered design to prepare leaders capable of addressing complex organizational and societal challenges.

Sandra Waddock is Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, and Professor of Management at Boston College's Carroll School of Management, and a BC Schiller Institute for Integrated Sciences Faculty Affiliate. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and has published over 200 papers and chapters and 16 books and received multiple lifetime achievement awards. Books include Catalyzing Transformation: How to Make System Change Happen (Business Expert Press, 2024. Other books include Intellectual Shamans (Cambridge, 2014) and Transforming towards Life-Centered Economics (Business Expert Press, 2020). Waddock was a lead author in Chapter 2 of the 2025 IPBES Transformative Change Assessment. Current research interests include eco-social transformational system change, transforming to a life-centered economics, and intellectual shamans, among others.

thursday oct 16
5:30  pm PT FILM NIGHT
Benson BC
with Maria Judnick, Dept of English

Enjoy a moving climate action film in the Benson Parlors BC. Snacks provided. 

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Benson BC

Enjoy a moving climate justice film in the Benson Parlors BC. Snacks provided. 

with Hanna Tedla & Emily Cole

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