Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples and their Responses to its Effect -- Working Group Members

 


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Will Steger Foundation
Inuit Circumpolar Council
Saami Council
EALAT
International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry
RAIPON

Broad participation by civil society is encouraged

Moki Kokoris – Chapter Coordinator-in-Chief

Department of Public Information Representative for the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations; 1st woman of Ukrainian descent (14th woman) to reach the North Pole (2003); Member National of the Explorers Club; Founder of 90-north.com – a traveling in-classroom environmental educational program; Arctic Editor of “The Polar Times” (journal of the American Polar Society); Visiting Speaker for ARCUS (Arctic Research Consortium of the United States); Presenter at the Will Steger International Institute of Climate Change Education; Graduate of The Cooper Union School of Architecture; graphic artist, illustrator, and private piano teacher.

Affiliations: North American Association of Environmental Education, American Polar Society, International Polar Year – Education & Outreach Program, Byrd Polar Research Center, American Himalayan Foundation, Will Steger Foundation – Global Warming 101, Jane Goodall Foundation, Polar Bears International, Ukrainian Scouts, Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund, Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Society of Scribes.
Contact Information: 600 Barrack Hill Road, Ridgefield CT 06877 – Moki@cloud9.net .


Stephen Sachs - Coordinating Editor of Indigenous Policy (at: www.indigenouspolicy.org ), since 2000, and was Coordinator of the Indigenous Studies Association, IPJ’s publisher (1999-2006). IPJ reports regularly on environmental issues impacting Indigenous people, and on their actions relating to combating environmental degradation.

A political scientist and applied philosopher involved with public policy. Taught environmental and energy policy. Focused heavily on Indigenous research since the 1980’s and have written numerous articles and papers in that field, including, "The Cutting Edge of Physics: Western Science Is Finally Catching Up with American Indian Tradition," Proceedings of the Western Social Science Association, American Indian Studies Section, 2007, published in Indigenous Policy, summer 2007; and “Climate Change, Related Environmental Degradation and Indigenous People,” Indigenous Policy, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, Fall 2007.

Contact Information: Professor Emeritus of Political Science, IUPUI, 1916 San Pedro Dr. NE , Albuquerque , NM 87110 ssachs@earthlink.net, (505)265-9388.