FORGE 2025 Gathering - Full Participant

• 9:00am - 3:30pm | FORGE Ideas & Actions Discussion Series
• 4:00pm - 8:30 pm | Ideas Festival featuring FORGE 2025 speakers per schedule below.

In shifting global and domestic contexts, the FORGE Program is dedicated to uncovering new approaches and solutions that reimagine rights and governance worldwide. With the hope of building momentum toward a brighter future, FORGE seeks to:

1. Inspire the global community of practice with new ideas about global rights and governance.
2. Encourage experimentation with new actions (methods, practices) that can transform the outcomes for rights and governance worldwide.

With creativity and interdisciplinarity at its heart, the Gathering will include keynote talks, interviews, film screenings, book launches, poetry readings, concerts, and performances of various kinds.

This ticket provides access to all the events of FORGE 2025, scheduled from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM on both days, March 14 and 15, 2025.

• Andrew C. Revkin: Journalist, educator, and author, whose published work includes The Burning Season and The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene.
• Elisa Morgera: UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights and Professor of Global Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde.

• Dylan McGarry: Co-director of One Ocean Hub and a founding member of Empatheatre.

• Eliana Hernández-Pachón: writer and educator whose book, The Brush, received the Colombia National Poetry Prize.

• Erin Robinsong: poet, interdisciplinary artist, and author of Rag Cosmology and Wet Dream.

• Jonathan Watts: Journalist, co-founder of Sumaúma, and global environment editor at The Guardian.

• Genevieve Guenther: Founder of End Climate Science and author of The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It.

Day 1 will conclude with a concert on by musician and field recordist will conclude with a concert on by acclaimed musician and field recordist Cosmo Sheldrake.

• Justice Luís Roberto Barroso: Justice and President of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil
• César Rodríguez-Garavito: Professor of Clinical Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law.
• Margaret L. Satterthwaite: UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers.
• Sol Guy: Co-founder of Quiet and award-winning producer and director who uses art to heal and catalyze social change.
• Stephen Duncombe: Co-founder and Research Director of the Center for Artistic Activism.

For more information about the event: FORGE 2025

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, New York, United States