Meet Our Speakers
Thursday, Oct. 29th
Marcina Langrine
Marcina Langrine is an Operations Coordinator with the Marshallese Educational Initiative (MEI), where she supports programs focused on education, advocacy, cultural preservation, community engagement, and empowerment. Through her work with MEI, she helps connect Marshallese families and youth with educational opportunities, essential resources, health and social services, and culturally responsive support.
Marcina also serves as Protocols Coordinator with the Nuclear Truth Project, supporting efforts to advance ethical, respectful, and reciprocal engagement with nuclear-affected communities.
Raphael Pangalangan
Raphael Pangalangan is a Human Rights lawyer with UNOHCHR, supporting the implementation of the UN’s mandate addressing the human rights impacts of the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands. He is responsible for capacity building, consultations, and the preparation of the office's reports on human rights and nuclear legacies. Prior to this mandate, Raphael worked as a lawyer in the Philippines and New York. He completed his graduate studies and fellowships in international law at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard.
Screening of The Moth
Michelle Derosier is Anishinaabe from Migisi Sahgaigan First Nation in Treaty 3 Territory in Northern Ontario, Canada. She has been making films for 18 years; her work has screened nationally and internationally at the Sundance Film Festival, MaoriLand in New Zealand, the New York Museum of Arts and Design, INDIANER INUIT in Germany, LA Skins Film Festival and ImagineNATIVE, to name a few. Her work has aired on APTN, TVO, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Prime.
Zoe Gordon is a media artist focused on sound, and has a sound studio, Cricket Cave, in Thunder Bay. She collaborates on media projects for independent release and broadcasters. She’s also a community arts producer. Her personal practice is focused on listening, embodiment and storytelling.
University of Guelph-Humber
A Multi-Case Study in the History of Global Opposition to Nuclear Weapons
Anne-Sophie Regnier
Anne-Sophie will facilitate the “World Without Nuclear Weapons” Art Project in the evening.
She is a passionate franco-mainitobaine, musician and dreamer of a more just world. She holds a B.A. in International Relations from the Université de Saint-Boniface and has been actively involved in numerous organizations and projects that promote environmental justice and support French-speaking culture and initiatives in Manitoba. She collaborates with MCIC's team to offer educational resources and workshops in English et en français, helping to foster awareness, empathy and action on local and global social justice issues among youth and educators.
Friday, Oct. 30th
Paul Jay
Paul Jay is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. He is a past chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada and was the founding chair of Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival. Paul was the co-creator and co-executive producer of Face Off and counterSpin, nightly prime-time debate programs that ran for ten years on CBC Newsworld. Paul has directed many feature docs, including the acclaimed Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows.
Kansai Soka High School
Global Citizenship Education and Nuclear Abolition
Hon. Marilou McPhedran
Marilou is a human rights lawyer, professor and activist, was appointed as an Independent Senator in the Parliament of Canada by Governor General David Johnston on the recommendation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in November 2016.
Marilou was one of the most influential leaders of the 1981 Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women on the Constitution conference - the grassroots social movement of women across Canada resulting in stronger equality rights in the constitution.
She attended the ICAN Nuclear Ban Forum and the First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW in Vienna and continues to strongly advocate for the Canadian government to sign the TPNW.
Marianne Cerilli
Marianne Cerilli works at the intersection of education, community development, and politics. Her social innovation tools on three themes; The Politics of Unity, Healing for Change and Community as Classroom, bring trauma informed, conflict resolution skills and practices to help us move away from oppressive, colonial procedures and structures in organizations of all kinds.
Before she was 30, Marianne was a sports, health and recreation champion, led a youth work experience program with the Manitoba government, was a high school guidance counsellor and elected MLA. Since three terms at the Manitoba legislature, she has taught at U Winnipeg, U Manitoba and Red River College, was an advocate/mentor at an inner-city women’s center and community animator at Winnipeg Social Planning Council. Her peace activism has ranged from regulating violent video games, reducing military budgets, and ethical journalism in war coverage.
Winslow Myers & Libby Traubman
“A No and a Yes” from Blame to Personal Responsibility
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