Finding joy in climate action

Dan Burritt is the host and producer of CBC Vancouver News at 11 PM. He has reported on a wide range of breaking and in-depth news stories in the region, and has an extensive background in election coverage. Prior to joining CBC in 2012, he spent six and a half years as a radio reporter. He received the Broadcast Performer of Tomorrow award from the BCAB (British Columbia Association of Broadcasters) in 2010 and a Jack Webster Award nomination for his Chuck Davis Tribute. Burritt spent considerable time writing, reporting, and hosting at UBC’s student newspaper and radio station before pursuing his career further by enrolling at BCIT.

Dr. Kate White is the Senior Associate Dean, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Sustainability at the UBC Sauder School of Business and is a professor of marketing and behavioural science. Kate’s research focuses on how to encourage prosocial and sustainable consumer behaviours. She has published over 50 research articles and is the co-author of “The Elusive Green Consumer” in Harvard Business Review. She was named one of the top five marketing researchers in the world by the American Marketing Association; was inducted to the College of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Canada; and received a Canada Clean 50 Award and the American Marketing Association’s Award for Responsible Research in Marketing.

Dr. Jiaying Zhao is the Canada Research Chair and an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at UBC. Dr. Zhao is also a faculty affiliate with the Center for Effective Global Action at University of California, Berkeley, and an invited researcher at J-PAL at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Zhao uses psychological principles to design behavioural solutions to address sustainability challenges. She recently gave a TED talk on happy climate action.