Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit

The University of Colorado Boulder partnered with United Nations Human Rights and the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance to raise awareness of climate change as a human rights issue—and to spur action. The university hosted the inaugural Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in December 2022. The event featured a diversity of panels and perspectives, and keynote addresses by well-known climate justice advocates Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland; Indigenous author Sheila Watt-Cloutier; and human rights activist Kumi Naidoo.

I worked as the senior graphic designer with a team of creatives that included photographers, videographers, and copywriters. For our visual concept, we created layered, integrated designs of people and the environment. With this approach, we sought to highlight the contrast between our current reality and the future we want to create. Through this use of imagery, we symbolically imply that people and the Earth are integrated and one, and that the solution to the climate crisis is within us.

In the months leading up to the event, I helped establish the creative direction, created digital and print assets to promote awareness, and worked closely with the CVENT team (event management platform) to create assets for their event companion app that facilitated guest registration and displayed program scheduling and other information.