{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"resilience","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org","title":"Severn Cullis-Suzuki","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Y4tFreB07B\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/severn-cullis-suzuki\/\">Severn Cullis-Suzuki<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/severn-cullis-suzuki\/embed\/#?secret=Y4tFreB07B\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Severn Cullis-Suzuki&#8221; &#8212; resilience\" data-secret=\"Y4tFreB07B\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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She continues today as on the Earth Charter International Council.\u00a0  While studying Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, Severn spearheaded Powershift 2000, a cycling trip across Canada for clean air and climate change awareness, and the Recognition of Responsibility pledge \u2013 which she brought to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg 2002, where she was a special advisor to the Secretary General. Ten years later, Severn returned to Rio once again for the UN Rio+20 conference, as a Champion for youth group \u2018We Canada,\u2019 in 2012. Severn has collaborated with the Sloth Club in Japan on four speaking tours focusing on the Slow movement, and the post-Fukushima Million Mothers Movement, driven by mothers who refuse nuclear power.\u00a0 Severn is an Action Canada Fellow (\u201804-\u201805), and co-editor for the book Notes from Canada\u2019s Young Activists (Greystone books, 2007).\u00a0 Severn was a Board member of the David Suzuki Foundation for 14 years, and was a founding member of the Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society.\u00a0  Severn believes very much using media to communicate, collaborating with filmmakers in several documentaries including Jean Paul Jaud\u2019s film Severn: La Voix de Nos Enfants, as well as hosting the TV show Suzuki\u2019s NatureQuest, and the water-focused TV series Samaqan: Water Stories, for four seasons on Canada\u2019s Aboriginal People\u2019s Television Network (APTN).\u00a0  Today Severn\u2019s focus is the nexus of decline in diversity of biodiversity, worldviews, economies, language, traditional knowledge and identity.\u00a0 She holds an M.Sc. in Ethnoecology from the University of Victoria, and is currently a Vanier and Public scholar PhD candidate studying endangered language revitalization.\u00a0 Severn lives on the archipelago of Haida Gwaii off the coast of British Columbia, with her husband Judson Brown and their two sons.","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/res-share.jpg","thumbnail_width":1200,"thumbnail_height":627}