1.5 degrees of peace

Building intergenerational partnerships to create sustainable peace

with Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Join award-winning GenZ documentary filmmaker and founder of The Global Sunrise Project, Kasha Sequoia Slavner, in conversation with GCC President Rick Hanson on the topic of sustainable peacebuilding, which is the center of Kasha’s next documentary project titled 1.5 Degrees of Peace. They’ll discuss the power youth have to address the threats of climate change and global peace, knowing that the responsibility shouldn’t fall on their shoulders alone. We need intergenerational partnerships to develop and maintain a better future for all.

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Kasha Sequoia Slavner is the GEN-Z founder of The Global Sunrise Project and director/screenwriter of the multi-award-winning documentary, The Sunrise Storyteller.

Since its World Premiere at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2017, the film has screened at 61 film festivals internationally and won 31 awards to date, some of which include “Best Documentary” at Carmarthen Bay BAFTA Awards Qualifying Festival, “Rising Star Filmmaker” at Colorado International Activism Film Festival, the “Golden Jury Prize, Youth Visions” at the Social Justice Film Festival, Seattle, “Spirit of Activism” at the Nevada Women’s Film Festival, the “Ron Kovic Peace Prize,” and the “Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award,” My Hero Film Festival, Los Angeles.

Kasha has been a photographer, entrepreneur, and social justice advocate for over a decade, as well as a writer, public speaker, and contributor to several publications, including National Geographic Learning.