CANTON -- St. Lawrence University will host alumna Jana Morgan ’07 as part of the Department of Global Studies series on Building Skills for Advocacy & Activism.

Morgan will lead a flash seminar, titled “Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant: How Civil Society Took on Big Oil to Create a More Transparent World,” at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13, in the Sykes Common Room, focusing on her work promoting transparency in the resource extraction sector. The event is free and open to the public.

Morgan is the director of Publish What You Pay-United States and leads the coalition’s efforts to bring transparency and accountability to the oil, gas, and mining sector. Her work includes guiding the coalition’s advocacy and research strategies to ensure the strong implementation of Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act.

She also collaborates with PWYP coalitions around the world to push for a global oil, gas, and mining payment transparency standard. She is an alternate civil society representative on the United States Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative multi-stakeholder group, as well as a Global Council member of PWYP International, representing North American and Europe. Previously, she worked at Global Witness, doing advocacy and in country field research on Afghanistan’s extractive sector, conflict minerals exploitation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the development of governance systems for Uganda’s emerging oil sector.

Morgan received her bachelor degree in government from St. Lawrence University in 2007 and currently serves as the director of outreach for The Weave News, an independent media project grounded in St. Lawrence's Department of Global Studies. She also holds a master’s degree in international relations from the Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a certificate of advanced study in conflict resolution.

For more information, contact 229-5965.