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 Cleber Bernardes is a Pharmacist, Co-Founder of CEDS Environmental Care and expert in environmental and sustainability issue. With CEDS he helps organizations and people improve their sustainability efforts through awareness and knowledge. In 2010 he was coordinate of a project "safe disposal" with a goal to avoid medication be dumping in the rivers and landfills. Was part of several lectures in South America talking about sustainable living for hundred of peoples. He target his presentation at the decision-makers and explain how environmental and  ecological issues affect every people.  

Yasmeen Peer is the Nature and Food Campaigner with Greenpeace Canada in Toronto. In her role as Nature and Food campaigner her advocacy focuses on the critical need to transform Canadian food systems to be more sustainable, climate resilient, equitable, and ethical. She supports local solutions and initiatives by collaborating with local food and climate justice centered urban farmers, climate and human rights, and food justice activists and visionaries, academics, councils, and low carbon plant based restaurateurs. She also publicly targets global corporations and governments who are heating up our planet and threatening biodiversity by ravaging our forests with industrial animal agriculture. She raises awareness about the power we, as individuals and as residents of cities and towns have to lower our carbon footprint by changing what’s on our plate and reducing how much food we waste.   

 While obtaining her law degree she focused on Indigenous rights and legal traditions, environmental law and the rights of nature as well as international human rights, law of genocide and international criminal law. She worked with West Coast Environmental Law in Vancouver in their Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land Air Water (RELAW) department working with Indigenous trappers in Treaty 8 territory and Tsilhqot’in Elders on water law governance. In addition, she has worked for the United Nations in the Hague, in the Netherlands, in International Criminal Tribunal in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, in the appeals chamber and in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan.  

 Jennifer Fitzpatrick is currently the Senior Manager, Donor Relations at Second Harvest, where she has the distinct honour and privilege of working with a community of incredible donors who share in Second Harvests vision of No Waste. No Hunger. With a post-graduate degree in Fundraising & Resource Development and a passion for waste free living, Jennifer believes deeply in the core values of Second Harvest and strives to live these values in her day to day life