In this virtual At the Table event, delve into the bittersweet history of sugar to unearth stories of Afro-Asian cultural exchange in the Caribbean. Through conversation and cooking, artist Andrea Chung and Tao Leigh Goffe (Global Public Voices) explore the crossroads of Black and Asian diaspora arts and cuisines, focusing on foodways that evolved out of colonial plantations.

Linda Shi, Global Public Voices, said there are limits to what infrastructure improvements such as larger storm pipes and road elevation can bring.

Women, peace, and security advocate and interpersonal violence and development specialist Sherna Alexander Benjamin said she hoped that in 2021 “all citizens can live in a country where we can become better to restore human dignity and we all can feel safe enough to walk our streets."

GPV international partner in the Trinidad Guardian: President of the Organisation for Abused and Battered Individuals (OABI), Sherna Alexander-Benjamin, said COVID-19 should not be made a “scapegoat” for the increase in sexual and other forms of abuse against the nation’s children.

In Just Security: "Among many other things, the last four years has been one, long, sustained attack on the role of the United States in refugee protection – and on the rule of law in the immigration system more broadly."

In the New York Times: Shi is concerned that the model’s underlying data set — the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative — is so strongly correlated with income per capita. She’s not convinced that just because a nation is wealthy it will be resilient. Neither is she convinced that physical isolation keeps dangers at bay. “Boats and nuclear warheads can make their way to New Zealand,” she said.

Op-ed in The Hill: "But adaptation planning is about more than readying the built environment. Tackling climate adaptation is compelling when it meaningfully builds communities’ ability to improve housing quality and affordability, food security, livelihoods, and health."

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LACS faculty Gerard Aching is working with St. James A.M.E. Zion Church members and a Cornell team to uncover local history of Black diaspora.