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 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.

myrah rafi'ah beverly is the daughter of a Singaporean mother and an African-American father and grew up in a Latino neighborhood in the Chicago suburbs. Proud of her international identity, she is committed to understanding how environmental, social, and policy affects culture, and how to implement intersectionality-informed policy. At the Pew Charitable Trusts, she supports the U.S. Conservation team advocating for active Tribal stewardship and climate-smart federal policy in the land management of public lands across the West. She graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in Comparative Cultures and Politics and double minors in Korean and Spanish. myrah is also a spoken word poet and represented Portland at the 2024 Bigfoot Regional Poetry Festival.

 

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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