Speaker: Amali Tower, Founder and Executive Director of Climate Refugees, and SIPA Alumna ('09)
Amali Tower will discuss the latest report "Shrinking Options: The Nexus Between Climate Change, Displacement and Security in the Lake Chad Basin", which evaluates what impact climate change and the shrinking Lake Chad played in the displacement of 2.4 million people around Lake Chad region.
Founded in 2015, Climate Refugees is an independent project created to bring attention and action to help people displaced across borders as a result of climate change.
Amali Tower is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Refugees. Amali has worked the past 12 years to promote the protection of refugees and forcibly displaced persons in a variety of contexts, including in refugee resettlement, protection, evaluation and research with the UN Refugee Agency in Kenya and Jordan, various NGOs throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the US, and as a sub-contractor to the US Department of State's overseas US Refugee Admissions Program. Amali has interviewed countless refugees and internally displaced persons over the years in urban and camp contexts, and has strong field research and advocacy experience in human rights, humanitarian programming and conflict risk analysis. She holds a Master of International Affairs focused in Human Rights from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, a Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance from Fordham University.
Co-sponsored with Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration and Energy and Environment Concentration.
