POWERSHIFT — A SEAT AT THE DINNER TABLE NATALIA BONILLA & REBECCA IRBY with guests CYNTHIA LEUNG & JENNIFER ZHANG | 4 March 2021 @ 6P EST

Come explore the world through great food and conversation, every other Thursday on https://MIDHEAVEN.NETWORK. Join NATALIA BONILLA + REBECCA IRBY every other Thursday for a delicious meal with meaningful, intimate talks on our shared humanity & the hardships/blessings tied to our culture, nation, politics, and current events. We welcome you to join us for dinner. No seriously, we'll be eating, please join us for a meal! This week, we're visiting with Cynthia Leung and eating Congee with Char Siu. The recipe is here: https://tinyurl.com/4c2c9y6s. If you want to learn how to cook it, go for it OR just grab a snack and come listen in. Vegetarian or vegan? No problem! GLUTEN-FREE/ VEGAN RECIPE HERE: https://tinyurl.com/9f9kmrw5 And if you’re like Rebecca... You can automagically find takeout options near you here: https://tinyurl.com/3nm62szv. We recommend ordering by 4P to ensure your meal arrives for our 6P meal. EPISODE 01 DINNER GUEST — CYNTHIA LEUNG Cynthia is a seventeen year old high schooler and climate organizer. She's also the CEO and co-founder of Climate Science Communication for Youth. CSCY was created as a formal mechanism to mobilize for S7341. Inspired by the organizers around her, at the age of fifteen, she went to the law books section at the Grand Army Plaza Library to research, draft, and finally propose a climate justice education bill to her state senator, who liked the proposal and decided to have it introduced into both New York State Legislatures. Although it failed in the 2019-2020 legislative session due to COVID-19, she's been mobilizing through coalition building to ensure that this bill is passed in the next few months. Her organization hosts the Model Curricula L.A.B. Program where they promote and empower youth, particularly young women and BIPOC, to propose their own climate justice education bills in their own states. She's also the appointed Children's Focal Point for the United Nations' Environment Programme's Youth Constituency. Before doing all of this work, she was a youth representative at the United Nations where she delivered a speech at the High-Level Segment of ECOSOC. EPISODE 01 DESSERT GUEST — JENNIFER ZHANG Stick around from 7 to 7.30p for dessert where we’ll be joined by Jennifer Zhang, Executive Director of The World is Watching — Black Lives Matter International. #TheWorldIsWatching is a global coalition demanding concrete actions to end police brutality and systemic racism in the US. We are leaders, foreign and domestic professionals, organizations, grassroots activists, and allies. We are creating a unified international front calling for policy, system, and environmental changes. We are inspired by the critical role that international pressure had in advancing the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Amidst the largest civil rights movement in history, we are strategically mobilizing the global community in the fight for justice.

Cynthia is a seventeen-year-old high schooler and climate organizer. She's also the CEO and co-founder of Climate Science Communication for Youth. CSCY was created as a formal mechanism to mobilize for S7341. Inspired by the organizers around her, at the age of fifteen, she went to the law books section at the Grand Army Plaza Library to research, draft, and finally propose a climate justice education bill to her state senator, who liked the proposal and decided to have it introduced into both New York State Legislatures.

Although it failed in the 2019-2020 legislative session due to COVID-19, she's been mobilizing through coalition building to ensure that this bill is passed in the next few months. Her organization hosts the Model Curricula L.A.B. Program where they promote and empower youth, particularly young women and BIPOC, to propose their own climate justice education bills in their own states. She's also the appointed Children's Focal Point for the United Nations Environment Programme's Youth Constituency. Before doing all of this work, she was a youth representative at the United Nations where she delivered a speech at the High-Level Segment of ECOSOC.

Stick around from 7 to 7:30 for dessert where we’ll be joined by Jennifer Zhang, Executive Director of #TheWorldIsWatching!!

The World Is Watching is a global coalition demanding concrete actions to end police brutality and systemic racism in the US. We are leaders, foreign and domestic professionals, organizations, grassroots activists, and allies. Amidst the largest civil rights movement in history, we are strategically mobilizing the global community in the fight for justice.

- Explore their work, including From Our Eyes magazine, Issue Briefings, BLM Nobel Peace Prize nominating petition, and upcoming events at theworldiswatchingBLM.org

- Watch their next BLM Global Chats episode on March 16 at 2 PM EST on Instagram Live @theworldiswatching.BLM