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Women’s Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2016
Department of Women’s Studies, University of Hawai‘i
at Mānoa
Re-powering: Why Gender
Equality is Key to Solving
the Climate Crisis
Feb 12 (Friday) 10:30-12:00,
Architecture 205
Cate Owren is the Senior Officer of the
International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) Global Gender Office (GGO). She
manages a wide range of gender and environment
programming, including GGO's global and
national-level portfolio to support genderresponsive action on climate change. Prior to
joining IUCN in 2013, Cate was the Executive
Director of WEDO - the Women's Environment and
Development Organization, a women's global
advocacy NGO focused on environmental issues,
based in New York. In addition to over a decade of
work around United Nations policymaking
spheres, she has experience in countries
including the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Togo,
Mozambique and Zambia. Free and Open to Public
Co-sponsored by UHM Department of Political Science, Geography,
Hawaii Interfaith Power and Light, and Watada Lecture Series