8:30- 9:30

Student Summit

Terrell Hall 122 Auditorium

9:00-10:00

Registration 

Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building (MAHB) Auditorium

10:00-10:20

Morning Ceremony and Speakers

Opening Ceremony and Welcome Remarks

GPSEN Executive Director Neeraja Havaligi

10:20-10:40

Judy BlueHorse Skelton, Portland State University

Reclaiming the Urban Forest for Food, Medicine and Ceremony:  An Overview of Indigenous Cultural Collaborations in the Portland Metro Area

10:40-11:15

Jenny Lee, Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC), Rev. E.D. Mondaine, NAACP, Adriana Voss-Andreae, 350PDX, and Oriana Magnera, Verde

The Collaborative Power of the Portland Clean Energy Initiative

11:15-11:45

Pete Lee, Bonneville Power Administration

Promoting Equity, Economic Opportunity, and Social Justice for Marginalized Communities

Amy Higgs and Rachel Willis, Eco-School Network

Eco-School Network: Shaping a Culture of Sustainability in Elementary Schools

11:45-12:55

Lunch 

Student Union Building

Break-Out Sessions

1:00-2:00

A Boardgame – The Tiny House Ecovillage Potential

Linda Pope and Joe Culhane, Portland Community College

(60 mins)

Our Budding Forests: An Introduction to Permaculture and Forest Gardening 

Julian Dominic, City Repair

(60 mins)

Clean Water For The People

Tom Carter, Robert Tait, Elaine Kuehn, Nikki Gillis, and Dr. Mary Ann Westfall, Agua Pura

(60 mins)

Designing Accessible and Transformative Curricula through Sustainability Education and Student Leadership

Heather Spalding and Beau Gilbert, Portland State University

(30 mins)

Reclaiming Our Relational Narrative with the Earth

Amelia Weesies, Portland Community College

(30 mins)

Place-Based Learning Enhances Student Sustainability Practices

Taryn Oakley, Portland Community College

(30 mins)

Creating Handprints: Four Ways You and I Can Change the System

Jon Biemer, Engineer

(30 mins)

2:00-2:05

Break

2:05-3:05

Understanding the World through English and the Sustainable Development Goals

Davida Jordan and Serena Dressel, Portland State University

(60 mins)

Ceremony as a Bridge to Sustainability

Jon Biemer, Linda Neale and Rod McAfee,  Earth and Spirit Council

(60 mins)

Big History, Factfulness and Sustainable Development

Greg Cermak, NOAA

(60 mins)

COP23 / COP24: International Climate Action in Ironic and Urgent Times

Frank Granshaw, Portland State University, GPSEN Fellow

(30 mins)

Innovations in Campus Beekeeping: Creating Community Connections

Elaine Cole, Briar Schoon and Anne Lesenne, Portland Community College

(30 mins)

Minorities’ Participation in River Stewardship and Conservation Practices- The Case of Clackamas County

Zahra Golshani, GPSEN Fellow

(30 mins)

The Battle Against Single-Use Plastics

Nancy Nordman, Surfrider Foundation

(30 mins)

3:05-3:15

Break

Afternoon Speakers and Celebration

Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building (MAHB) Auditorium

3:15-3:45

Mary Fifield, Kaleidoscope Consulting and Sonali George, Microsoft

Experiments in Power Sharing: Microsoft & Communities

3:45-4:15

Suvira Chaturvedi, United Nations

Sustainability, Women’s Empowerment, and Gender Equality

4:15-4:50

Non-Profits:  Green Empowerment and the ReBuilding Center

Academic:  Judy BlueHorse Skelton

Youth:  Our Children’s Trust

Business:  Nossa Familia

4:50-5:00

5:00-6:00

Reception

Student Union Building