In this keynote talk, Shay lynn Sampson will open SDG Week Canada at KPU by talking about the climate emergency. This hybrid event is hosted by the Climate+ Challenge and KPU’s UN Sustainable Development Goals project. In-person attendees will have the opportunity to mingle and eat a provided lunch.
Everyone welcome, including instructors bringing their classes!
March 6, 11:00am-2:00pm, Surrey Conference Centre
Shay lynn Sampson (she/they)Shay lynn Sampson is a Gitxsan Land Defender from the Lax Gibuu (Wolf Clan) and Wilp Spookw. She started organizing for climate justice and indigenous rights and sovereignty while living on Lekwungen territory, and was involved in the 2020 occupation of the BC legislature in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en. Since then they have moved back north to be on Wet’suwet’en Yintah, they have lived at the Gidimt’en Checkpoint alongside the Hereditary Chiefs opposing the Coastal GasLink Pipeline. She was one of the dozens people arrested during the 2021 militarized raids on Coyote Camp, following a 56 day reoccupation of the CGL drill pad site.