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As part of our ongoing expert sessions for the SDG Scholars Program, we present local expert Balkissa Daoura, speaking to SDG #13: Climate Action, founder of Kandili, a land restoration and climate activism organization in Niger. She shared her work helping to increase land restoration in degraded areas while simultaneously cultivating nutritious, culturally appropriate and climate-adapted foodstuffs from local trees and shrubs.
As part of our ongoing expert sessions for the SDG Scholars Program, we present local expert John Porter, speaking to SDG #2 Zero Hunger. John serves as a community environment extension educator and program leader. He focuses on connecting people and communities to knowledge and resources to build resilience, capacity, and equity around urban and peri-urban food production, food access, and sustainable agriculture. His work includes engaging learners through various methods to learn about fruit and vegetable production, farm business development and management for aspiring and beginning farmers, produce food safety practices, hydroponics production, food systems, and more.
As part of our ongoing expert sessions for the SDG Scholars Program, we present global expert Jhanira Rodriguez Torrez speaking to Goal #2, Zero Hunger. Jhanira is an economist, a researcher with SDSN Bolivia, and part of the leadership team for Thought for Food in Latin America.
Horticulture major Claire Gillespie & Global Studies major Katie Schmitz about their impactful study abroad experience exploring food security in Zambia last summer, partially supported by the Gilman Scholarship. They share about her time in Zambia, plus tips on how to successfully apply for the Gilman in order to help fund your travels.
As part of our ongoing expert sessions for the SDG Scholars Program, we present local expert Ryo Suzuki, speaking to Goal #8, Decent Work and Economic Growth. Ryo currently serves as an international recruitment specialist for the University of Nebraska-Kearney, as well as an associate leader for the U.S.-Japan Council.
As part of our ongoing expert sessions for the SDG Scholars Program, we present global expert Laban Njuguna, speaking to Goal #8, Decent Work and Economic Growth. Laban is the co-founder of Zabuni Specialty Coffee Auction, a platform to position coffee farmers from Africa to access buyers directly in North America and to empower them to negotiate for better prices directly with buyers. Zabuni Specialty Coffee warehouses, markets and auctions specialty coffee on behalf of small scale coffee farmers like his grandmother, who is now 107 years old, and still a coffee farmer. The organization is changing the conventional way through which specialty coffee leaves origin, and gets to buyers and consumers, so that farmers are sustainably & economically empowered.
As part of our ongoing expert sessions for the SDG Scholars Program, we present global expert Francisco Munoz-Arriola, speaking to Goal #13, Climate Action. Francisco is an Associate Professor in Hydroinformatics and Integrated Hydroclimate in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering and the School of Natural Resources. His academic and professional experiences encompass diagnostics and sub-seasonal to seasonal prognostics of extreme hydrometeorological and climate events, and their effects on infrastructure (i.e., water resources, agriculture, and ecosystem services).
As part of our ongoing expert sessions for the SDG Scholars Program, we present local expert Michael Shambaugh-Miller, speaking to Goal #2, Zero Hunger. Mike, among his many efforts to work towards zero hunger in Nebraska, is the founder and executive director of Produce from the Heart, a nonprofit that fights food and nutrition security in Nebraska while curbing food waste. He also serves as a lecturer of geography in UNL's School of Global Integrative Studies
As part of our ongoing expert sessions for the SDG Scholars Program, we present Dr. Georgina Bingham, speaking to Goal #2, Zero Hunger. Bingham is a research associate professor in the UNL Department of Entomology with more than 20 years’ experience working in developing regions including sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia and holds qualifications for project management and good clinical practice. Her research focuses on entomological impacts on food security and nutrition, and insects of medical and veterinary importance.
In our second expert session for the SDG Scholars Program, we present Luis Marcos, speaking to Goal #3, Good Health & Wellbeing. Luis shared his global perspective of how health and wellbeing are advanced in the context of the displaced Maya people residing in Nebraska, as well as those living on ancestral homelands in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and parts of El Salvador and Honduras (and those displaced in and around those regions, as well). He is the executive director of Pixan Ixim, an organization of the Maya Community in Nebraska dedicated to empowering the Maya people through community development programs. https://www.pixanixim.org/about.html
In our second expert session for the SDG Scholars Program, we present George Burba, speaking to Goal #13 Climate Action. Burba is a Science & Strategy Fellow at LI-COR Biosciences/Battery Ventures Group, a Global Fellow at Daugherty Water for Food Institute, a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors, and a Graduate Adjunct Professor at the University of Nebraska. A bio-atmospheric scientist and experienced research innovation leader, Burba holds 12 patents in the US and internationally in 40+ countries, with 11 on successfully commercialized technology, devices, and methods. He has written over 400 publications, including 9 books, and over 120 refereed scientific publications, among his many accomplishments. With global experience but deeply knowledgeable about the Nebraska context, he was able to share an insightful look at carbon sequestration and emissions in Nebraska and how we can keep taking action on climate.
Creating opportunities for students to engage with diverse perspectives around world challenges is critical to the development of innovative and openminded solution-makers. While coursework is fundamental to this development, creative co-curricular activities can supplement to provide students from an array of disciplines the chance to engage with these perspectives (from experts and peers) using the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals as a framework. Virtual and flexible participation options allow for wider access by more students, while the digital credential earned demonstrates valuable, future-ready competencies to employers. By learning from existing open-source online material, live sessions with global and local experts, brainstorming exchanges with peers, plus reflection and application into a final creative product, students can meaningfully explore how to contribute towards the most complex problems of our time. The program encourages expansive thinking and nuanced approaches to “wicked challenges,” while facilitating professional development and network-building for both domestic and international students.
Marwa Al Naimi reads "Bo the Bat" in Arabic.
About this series: As part of Bat Month & ahead of One Health Day, we're working to spread the word that bats are brilliant! We need them in order to have healthy ecosystems, and they need our help. One way we can start is by learning more about them.
In order to reach more kids and families in Nebraska, the U.S. and world, we've worked with multilingual volunteers to read them in diverse languages. Please enjoy this and the many more stories to come, representing languages and cultures from around the world! https://nebraskaonehealth.unl.edu/