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Climate Migration - How is climate change impacting human migration?
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Simonelli

Dr Simonelli will present on Zoom only. You can watch at home or at the Williamsburg Library Theatre.

Dr. Andrea Simonelli  is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at VCU. She focuses on governance responses to human migration to address internal and cross border displacement due to climate processes. She earned a diploma from the United Nations University Environment and Human Security Programme and Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre Summer School in Forced Migration. She is a speaker for the Climate Voices Network and a member of many organizations working on these issues.  She the author of Governing Climate Induced Migration and Displacement: IGO Expansion and Global Governance.