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Join the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences for the CALS Speaker Series, Dignity and Freedom Without Poverty: Why Oxfam Works the Way it Does and Where to From Here?, on Mon., April 7 at 10:30 a.m. in the Idaho Student Union Building, Crest Room. James Morrissey is the research lead on data and learning innovation, climate, energy and extractive industries at Oxfam America. He has studied and researched issues of international development for the past 20 years. Morrissey grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, where he studied ocean and atmosphere science, and then disaster risk science at the University of Cape Town. His master’s and doctorate work focused on understanding the relationship between climate change and rural-urban migration with a focus on the highlands of northern Ethiopia. He has worked on all manner of climate issues, from humanitarian concerns, to refugees, to food and agriculture issues, to issues of energy and extractive industries.
Morrissey will discuss how Oxfam’s rights-based approach to development came to be and reflect on what current trends mean for realizing Oxfam’s vision of a world where everyone has the opportunity to live a life of dignity and freedom without poverty. The talk will reflect his own views and not the formal position of Oxfam.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Idaho - Idaho Student Union Building, Crest Room, 846 W Idaho Ave, Moscow, ID 83843, United States,Moscow, Idaho
