Open Edu


Open Edu is a free and accessible climate education series that centers the voices and perspectives of People of the Global Majority.

Open Edu teaches on multiple topics through 3 major lenses—human rights, climate justice and collective liberation.

We believe that education is the foundation of progress, and that collectively we can cultivate the critical thinking to dismantle harmful systems.

Everything is Political

Winter 2024

Nov 8
12pm ET

Claudia De la Cruz: Voting is Not Enough with Claudia de la Cruz

Systems & Design Thinking
Nov 15
12pm ET

Decolonizing Africa: Congo, Sudan, Tigray with Tai Salih

Systems & Design Thinking
Nov 22
12pm ET

Climate & War with Sarah Sinno / Earth Preservation Project

Environmental Impact
Dec 6
12pm ET

Building Coalition with Claudia de la Cruz with Claudia de la Cruz

Systems & Design Thinking
Dec 13
12pm ET

Lebanon Under Siege (Again) with Chloe Kattar

Systemic Racism & Identity Politics
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Systems & Design Thinking

Transforming Food Systems with Vivien Sansour

Systems Literacy 101 with CĂ©line Semaan

Smart Cities with Aditi Desai

Beirut Symposium with Adib Dada, Charles Al-Hayek, Sara Al-Yafi

Designing Social & Environmental Justice with Antionette Carroll, CĂ©line Semaan, Christine Platt

Algorithmic Bias with Tazin Khan

Forbidden Systems with Mandy Harris Williams

Equity-Centered Community Design with Antionette Carroll

Waste-Led Design with CĂ©line Semaan

Sustainability Literacy Class 4 with CĂ©line Semaan

Sustainability Literacy Class 3 with CĂ©line Semaan

Sustainability Literacy Class 2 with CĂ©line Semaan

Sustainability Literacy Class 1 with CĂ©line Semaan

Critical Media Studies

Media Literacy with Collis Browne, Afeef Nessouli

Decolonizing Design with Maya Moumne

Reparative Media with Dr. Aymar JĂ©an Christian

Critical Media Literacy with Dr. Maytha Alhassen

Cancel Culture with Fariha Róisín

Fashion & Beauty Politics

Fashion and Blackness with Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs, Jonathan Square

Fashion And Prison Labor with Teju Adisa-Farrar

Fashion And Resistance with Korina Emmerich

Fashion And Spirituality with Anisa Tavangar

Fashion And Culture with Tracy Reese

Fashion And Waste with Liz Ricketts

Fashion And Colonialism with CĂ©line Semaan

Regenerative Economics

(Re)designing Corporations with CĂ©line Semaan

Leather: Fashion’s Dirty Secret with CĂ©line Semaan, JoĂŁo Talocchi, Greg Higgs, Teju Adisa-Farrar, Cameron Russell

Q&A: Ask Me Anything with Aja Barber, Liz Ricketts, CĂ©line Semaan, Dounia Wone

Upcycling Workshop — Waste as a Resource with Nicole McLaughin, Akilah Stewart

Jewelry Design for the Real World with Wing Yau, Bliss Lau

Environmental Impact

Climate & War with Sarah Sinno / Earth Preservation Project

Ecocide and Genocide with Earth Preservation Project

Orientalism & Environmental Justice with Dr. Suja R. Sawafta

O‘ahu Water Crisis: Shut Down Red Hill! with CĂ©line Semaan, Dr. David UahikeaikaleiÊ»ohu Maile, Healani Pale

Anticolonial Methodologies with Dr. Max Liboiron

Town Hall: End of Year Climate Debrief with CĂ©line Semaan, Sophia Li

Material Literacy

Material Literacy with Seetal Solanki

History of Cotton with Teju Adisa-Farrar, Sha’Mira Covington

History of Microplastics with Madeleine MacGillivray

History of Plastic with Dr. Theanne Schiros

Collective Healing

Spiritual Alchemy with Lalah Delia

Healing in the Time of Tragedy with Nadia Irshaid Gilbert

CARE IS WHAT WE DO with Ross Gay

Spiritual Capacity with Syntyché Francella

Systemic Racism & Identity Politics

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