Webinar: Sustainable Mentorship: Building Bridges Between Generations for a Greener Future


Wednesday, February 5, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EST)
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Category: Webinar

About the event

Designed for students and seasoned professionals alike, this webinar will highlight how mentoring relationships can help us share knowledge and inspire action in the sustainability field. You will hear how being a mentee or a mentor shaped the panelists' approaches to addressing sustainability challenges.

In addition to the success stories, we'll also explore common challenges in mentorship relationships, such as the balance between providing guidance and allowing a mentee to discover their own path. We'll end with some practical ways to bridge generational gaps in mentoring to ensure that both younger and more experienced individuals feel heard and supported.

Learning Objectives

  • Learn how mentorship empowers individuals at all career stages 
  • Explore strategies for bridging generational and intersectional gaps
  • Understand the role of technology in virtual mentorship and interdisciplinary collaboration

Meet your moderator

Dawn Chávez is a nonprofit leader and strategist with 25 years of experience in the environmental field as educator, program director, network weaver and executive director. Dawn currently works as the executive director of the Environmental Leadership Program, where she leads seven staff members and collaborates with eleven board members in achieving its mission and vision. Dawn enjoys discovering and leveraging the strengths of each individual to reach their full potential in working towards a common goal. She believes in adaptive, collaborative, shared leadership and emergent strategy as the best way to address the complex, intertwined issues of equity, environment and social justice. A native of the Bronx in New York City, Dawn has lived
and worked across the country in many different communities, from wilderness outposts to small towns to large urban centers. A lifelong learner, Dawn has degrees in Natural Resources, Environmental Education and completed all coursework towards a doctoral degree in Environmental Studies and continues to pursue professional development opportunities in nonprofit management, fundraising and adaptive leadership. Dawn serves on the boards of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, the North American Association for Environmental Education and the Switzer Foundation. When not working hard to save the world, Dawn can be found binging series on Netflix or trying to wear out her dogs’ puppy energy on hikes with her family in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Meet your panelists

Jannice Newson is a social entrepreneur in the hair and beauty industry. She holds degrees in environmental science and conservation ecology, where her research focused on wetlands and agro-ecosystems. She is co-founder and CEO of Lillian Augusta Beauty and board member of Enterprise for Youth's Climate and Career Corps and Charles Round Bloom Project. Jannice lives in her hometown of Chicago and enjoys crocheting and reading autobiographies in her downtime.
Sonia Sharan is a marine social scientist who joined Oceana in June 2018, shortly after completing her master’s degree in International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She also has dual bachelor’s degrees from the University of Georgia in International Relations and Comparative Literature. Prior to graduate school, she worked at the Environmental Defense Fund as a project manager on the US Oceans team.

At Oceana, she provides research capacity for global campaigns on a variety of topics – monitoring and evaluation, food security, socio-economic status of fisheries and coastal communities, and transparency in governance, among others. She is committed to ensuring the preservation of biodiversity in tandem with the communities around it.

Layla Razek (she/her) works with Green 2.0 as a Digital Media and Communications Fellow. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Montréal, she is drawn to creative advocacy, community organizing, and environmental justice. Prior to this role, Layla was a RAY Fellow at the Pew Charitable Trusts, promoting the conservation of coastal wetlands through research and policy. She is a graduate of McGill University with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a minor in Political Science. With an affinity for bringing people together and building spaces of radical joy, she is also a curator and connector. Learn more about her latest art project with Green 2.0 here.

 

This event addresses the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Continuing education requirements

ISSP credential holders will earn 0.5 CEUs for attending this webinar.

Recording

The webinar recording and related materials are an ISSP member benefit and will be available to ISSP members after the webinar.  

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