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.

Winter 2025

Jan 24
12pm ET

Environ(mental) Health with Tori Tsui

Environmental Impact
Jan 31
12pm ET

Designing for a Liberated Future with Daleen Saah

Systems & Design Thinking
Feb 7
12pm ET

Dialing Our Ancestors with Tamika Abaka-Wood

Collective Healing
Feb 21
12pm ET

Resilience Research with JJ Tembien with JJ Tembien

Critical Media Studies
Mar 7
12pm ET

Sonic Justice with Earshot Investigations Limited

Environmental Impact
Mar 14
12pm ET
Mar 21
12pm ET

Plant Lab: Tool-Building For Another World with Kalpana Arias

Environmental Impact
Mar 28
12pm ET

The Art of Storytelling: Translating Chaos with Naley Matin, Sadia Hannan

Material Literacy
Apr 4
12pm ET

Black and Palestinian Solidarity with Dr. Maytha Alhassen with Dr. Maytha Alhassen

Systemic Racism & Identity Politics
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Systems & Design Thinking

Transforming Food Systems with Vivien Sansour

Systems Literacy 101 with Céline Semaan

Smart Cities with Aditi Desai

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

Designing Social & Environmental Justice with Antionette Carroll, Céline 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 Céline Semaan

Critical Media Studies

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 Céline Semaan

Regenerative Economics

(Re)designing Corporations with Céline Semaan

Leather: Fashion’s Dirty Secret with Céline Semaan, João Talocchi, Greg Higgs, Teju Adisa-Farrar, Cameron Russell

Q&A: Ask Me Anything with Aja Barber, Liz Ricketts, Céline 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

Sonic Justice with Earshot Investigations Limited

Environ(mental) Health with Tori Tsui

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 Céline Semaan, Dr. David Uahikeaikaleiʻohu Maile, Healani Pale

Anticolonial Methodologies with Dr. Max Liboiron

Town Hall: End of Year Climate Debrief with Céline Semaan, Sophia Li

Material Literacy

The Art of Storytelling: Translating Chaos with Naley Matin, Sadia Hannan

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

Dialing Our Ancestors with Tamika Abaka-Wood

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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