Luisa Neubauer (https://www.instagram.com/luisaneubauer/?hl=en) is a youth climate justice activist and lead organizer of the German "Fridays for Future" climate movement. In 2022 TIME Magazine included her among the "100Next" leaders. In "Neubauer vs. Germany" she and others won a landmark constitutional court ruling against the German government in 2021, forcing the government to improve its climate law, and are once again using the legal system to compel change in 2024. She has published three best-selling books on the climate crisis. One of them is available in English: Beginning to End the Climate Crisis. A History of Our Future (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brandeisuniversitypress.com_title_beginning-2Dto-2Dend-2Dthe-2Dclimate-2Dcrisis-2Da-2Dhistory-2Dof-2Dour-2Dfuture_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=4UboElJ6mjkFfPVfE_0T8A&m=02Bd-jPD7r9eJTNvKRfCxf7fnKvV4PUQXcp9UehhIaQdNn2ww8nR77bRgQ_F_ODd&s=pxjzVJTD1ln12UfQb7xTRQ-fhZKm6qKXLprjkWgM0wk&e=), published by Brandeis University Press in 2023. Her TED Talks (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ted.com_speakers_luisa-5Fneubauer&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=4UboElJ6mjkFfPVfE_0T8A&m=02Bd-jPD7r9eJTNvKRfCxf7fnKvV4PUQXcp9UehhIaQdNn2ww8nR77bRgQ_F_ODd&s=zwlcwnPRfihfIhVlXup_-mVdGwBb2bEsD4FpvBBEFys&e=) on climate action have been watched more than 4 million times. Neubauer is the host of the award-winning Podcast "1,5 Degrees." She is currently completing a Master's degree in Geography and is a visiting research scholar at the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University this fall.This event is sponsored by the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (https://hrrc.bwgermany.uconn.edu/), in collaboration with The Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute (https://humanrights.uconn.edu/about/about-hri/) and UConn German Studies (https://languages.uconn.edu/german/).      _

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