Making Waves for Ocean Justice - Data to Policy Webinar

Ocean Nexus—Webinar presents “Making Waves for Ocean Justice: Data to Policy Webinar” on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.

Featuring regional results from the 2024 National Azul Poll, the second-ever nationwide poll on Latino viewpoints on ocean protection, policies, and recreation

Presented by Azul’s Founder and Executive Director, Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš, this webinar will dive into how we can use data-driven insights to shape more equitable ocean policies. Following her presentation, she will be in conversation with the host of this webinar, Dr. Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor. Together, we can make waves for ocean justice that will ripple across our communities!

About the 2024 National Azul Poll: Azul, the leading non-profit working with Latinos to protect the ocean, released findings from a nationwide poll on Latino viewpoints on ocean protection, policies, and recreation. The poll found overwhelming support for pro-conservation policies and candidates from Latinos across the U.S., including a willingness to pay more in energy and food costs in order to advance ocean justice priorities. This groundbreaking poll delves deeper into critical issues impacting our oceans and coastal communities, revealing new insights into voter priorities and preferred policy solutions.

This webinar is brought to you by Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus at the University of Rhode Island in collaboration with Simon Fraser University and Azul.

Speaker:
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš (she/her)
Founder and Executive Director, Azul

Host:
Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor (he/him)
Assistant Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
Deputy Director, Ocean Nexus

Chapters
0:00 - Welcome and introductions
4:22 - Abou Azul
10:09 - Latino polling and the ocean
13:09 - Overall findings
14:05 - Polling methods
15:04 - Results - Ocean conservation
15:55 - Results - Coastal access
10:04 - Results - Recreation and identity
19:14 - Results - Economic and personal wellbeing
20:03 - Results - General concerns
21:04 - Results - Plastic pollution and illegal fishing
24:16 - Results - Perceptions of foreign-born Latinos
25:24 - Results - Offshore drilling
26:57 - Results - Climate Crisis
28:11 - Results - Platic pollution policy
28:52 - Results - Ocean protection
29:42 - Results - Drilling ban
30:59 - Results - Combating illegal fishing
31:43 - Results - Voing for oastal protection
36:05 - Q&A - Foreign-born Latinos
38:44 - Q&A - Ocean pollution and demographic
39:47 - Q&A - Traditions and culture
42:32 - Q&A - Comparison between communities
44:22 - Q&A - Proximity to ocean
46:30 - Q&A - Coastal access and income
49:01 - Q&A - Oceans and people
51:46 - Q&A - Ocean identities
53:51 - Q&A - Representation in policy
56:16 - Concluding remarks