May 05, 2000


SIPA's Sixth Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership And Public Policy Forum -- Forum Schedule

8:30 AM Opening Remarks
9:00 AM Keynote Address
9:30 AM Panel 1 - Community Transformation Through the Environmental Movement
  • Angela Glover Blackwell - President, PolicyLink (Chair)
  • Eddie Bautista - Director, Community Planning, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
  • Alicia Culver - Senior Research Associate, INFORM
  • Tony Mannetta - Director, Greenmarket, Council on the Environment
  • Mary Northridge - Professor, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Peggy Shepard - Executive Director, West Harlem Environmental Action
11:15 AM Panel 2 - Brownfields: Community Participation, Planning and Environmental Justice
  • Michael Gerrard - Partner, Arnold and Porter (Chair)
  • Kathleen Callahan - Director, Environmental Planning, US EPA Region II
  • Yolanda Garcia - Executive Director, We Stay/ Nos Quedamos Committee
  • Henry Mayer - Executive Director, National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfield Redevelopment, Rutgers University
  • Brenda Lee Richardson - President, Women Like Us
2:30 PM Panel 3 - New Issues in Transportation and the Environment
  • J. Phillip Thompson - Professor, Columbia University (Chair)
  • Robert Fullilove, III - Associate Dean and Professor, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Richard Kassel - Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Robert Paaswell - Professor and Director, University Transport Research Center, City College of New York
4:15 PM Panel 4 - New Concepts of Urban Living and Environment
  • Elliott Sclar - Professor, Columbia University (Chair)
  • Hillary Brown - NYC Assistant Commissioner, NYC Department of Design and Construction
  • Michel Gelobter - Professor, Dept. of Public Administration, Rutgers University
  • Michael Krause - Executive Director, Green Institute, Minneapolis
  • Vernice Miller-Travis - Executive Director, Partnership for Sustainable Brownfield Redevelopment
  • Stephanie Pollack-Vice President, Boston Center, Conservation Law Foundation

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