Conference Agenda
| Climate Migration Resources | Speaker List and Bios | Demographic Questionnaire |
Day 1 – Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Activity |
Topic |
Speakers/Facilitators
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| Housing Resilience Walking Tour of Keene
3-4:30pm Pat Russell Park, Carpenter St, Keene, NH |
City of Keene hosts a Housing Resilience Walking Tour
Registration required for this pre-conference event. |
Ben Frost from the NH Housing Finance Authority & Keith Thibault from Southwestern Community Services |
| Reception
5-7pm The Showroom at the Colonial Theater |
Climate Leadership Conversation: How Massachusetts is achieving its net zero and related emissions reduction commitments | Melissa Hoffer, Chief Climate Officer, State of Massachusetts Abigail Abrash Walton, Director, Masters of Science, Environmental Studies |
Day 2 – May 17, 2023
All Day 2 sessions will be at Heberton Hall at the Keene Public Library
Activity |
Topic |
Speakers/Facilitators |
| Breakfast & Check In
8:30-9:00 am |
Check in for the conference and pick up your name badge | |
| Welcome, Land Acknowledgement and Overview
9-9:15 am |
Mayor George Hansel, City of Keene Abigail Abrash Walton, Director, Masters of Science, Environmental Studies |
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| NEST Findings
9:15 – 10 am |
Top Level Findings, Climate Migration Demographics, and World Cafe Highlights | Linda Shi, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University |
| World Café
10 am-12 pm |
Table Hosts from NEST and Antioch University Team. | |
| Lunch
12- 1:30 pm |
Funding from Federal Government to Local Communities | Rebecca Blanco, Assistant Director, Office of Disaster Recovery, HUD
Marcus Tate, HMPG Grant Manager at FEMA Region 1 Elizabeth McKenna, Special Assistant for Policy and Projects, Office of US Senator Shaheen Ariela Zycherman, Program Manager with NOAA CAP/RISA |
| Training Workshops
1:40-3:50 pm 2:45-3:00 pm Coffee Break |
Training Workshop on Engagement and Strategic Communication
Rural Regeneration, Resilience, and Climate Migration: Considerations |
Facilitators: Susanne Moser, Director and Principal Researcher & Consulting and Meredith Herr, Climate Access
Presenter: Hillary Brown, FAIA Professor Emerita, Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York Faculty, Interdisciplinary M.S. program Sustainability in the Urban Environment Program Presenter/Facilitator: Abigail Abrash Walton, PhD Faculty and Program Director, Environmental Studies M.S., Antioch University New England |
| Closing Session
4-5pm |
Welcoming Standard for Incoming Migrants
Closing: How to stay connected and next steps |
Molly Hilligoss, Network Director, Welcome America
Christa Daniels, PhD, Program Director, Resource Management and Administration M.S., Antioch University New England |
