Moving Policy Through Storytelling with Vic Barrett

The Architectures of Planetary Well-being podcast Season 1 is hosted by Yessenia Funes and produced by re:arc institute. In this episode, host Yessenia Funes welcomes climate justice activist Vic Barrett to discuss Moving Policy Through Storytelling. Vic Barrett is most known as a plaintiff in Juliana v. United States, a climate-related lawsuit filed in 2015 by 21 youth plaintiffs against the United States government. He has spoken at the People’s Climate March, the NYC Climate Strike, the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum, the United Nations, and the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP). Join us as we explore how we can shape policy with concepts of empathy and care, take a look back at Vic’s beginnings as a youth activist, and talk about the significance of lived experience and embodied knowledge when advocating for climate justice.

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