2024

5:30 pm – Desserts/Vegan options

6:00 pm – Keynote Speaker – Jasmin Singer, Host WXXI’s Environmental Connections, Author, Environmental Activist, “In Our Hands: Climate Change & the Role of Individual Action – Previously Recorded”

6:25 pm – Keynote Speaker – Devparna Roy, PhD, Associate Professor, Nazareth University, Anthropology and Sociology, “Hope Through DeGrowth”

 6:50 to 8:30 pm Rotating Breakout Sessions

Session A, “Sustainable Rochester” – Shalini Beath, CSDM, Energy and Sustainability Manager, City of Rochester Environmental Services

Session B, “Climate Action at the Community Level” – Brady Fergusson, Director Public Engagement and Andre Primus, Manager of Organizational Programs Climate Solutions Accelerator

Session C, “Creating Community Through the Energy Transition” – Bill Ball, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Dept. of Science, Technology, and Society 

8:30 pm – Concluding Remarks

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