Created in collaboration with the NAACP's Hollywood Bureau, this conversation invites storytellers to look past the cloud and toward the people and places powering our digital lives. With every prompt and pixel, AI draws on real resources—land, water, energy—leaving its mark on communities too often kept out of the frame. This webinar centers on those human stories, asking storytellers to reckon with the environmental costs of innovation and imagine a future where technology, justice, and narrative responsibility move together.
Participants
Abré Conner, Esq., Director of the Center for Environmental and Climate Justice, NAACP
Abré Conner, Esq. is the Director of the Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, where she leads strategy and cross‑organizational collaboration to dismantle environmental racism. She has held senior civil rights and environmental justice roles across the country, including with the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, the ACLU of Northern California, the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, and she previously served in the Obama Administration. A graduate of the University of Florida and American University Washington College of Law, she has been honored by the National Bar Association and featured in The New York Times, Essence, Forbes, and TIME.
Special Thanks to NAACP Hollywood Bureau