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SUMMARY:The Wildfire-Stormwater Nexus
DESCRIPTION:The Wildfire-Stormwater Nexus event hosted by UCLA’s Water Resource Group features Dr. Sanjay Mohanty\, Director of SEALab\, and Onja Davidson-Raoelison\, Doctoral Researcher at SEALab\, who will discuss their research on the effect of anthropogenic and natural stressors such as wildfire on biogeochemical processes in subsurface soil and mitigating negative impacts on surface water quality using green infrastructure. \nThe event will also feature remarks and a panel discussion from Dr. Faith Kearns\, UC Water Institute Academic Coordinator\, who will discuss science communication\, community engagement\, and relationship-building as they relate to the environment and water resources\, and Ken Susilo\, Senior Principal Water Resources Engineer at Geosyntec\, who specializes in developing multi-benefit solutions for stormwater management and water conservation. \nREGISTER NOW\nLearn More: The UCLA Water Resources Group is a team of experts in water resources who collaborate to address global challenges\, including extended drought\, flooding\, and water pollution. They create partnerships with governments\, companies\, and nonprofits to develop and implement solutions that require expertise in politics\, economics\, science\, engineering\, and law. For more information visit their website here. \nPromotional Partners Include:\n\nGeosyntec Consultants\nUCLA Luskin Center for Innovation\nUCLA Samueli School of Engineering\nUniversity of California\, Agriculture and Natural Resources
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/the-wildfire-stormwater-nexus/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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SUMMARY:Luskin Summit 2023: Our Research in Action
DESCRIPTION:The fifth annual Luskin Summit will feature the unveiling of our annual poll about life in Los Angeles and six breakout sessions featuring scholars and civic leaders including: \n9:30-10:30 a.m. \n\nCalifornia’s Zero Emissions Vehicle Plans — Necessary\, but Insufficient\nThe Crisis of Resilient Water Supply in Southern California\nCredit Worthiness and Ethno-Racial Disparities in Homeownership Opportunities\n\n10:45-11:45 a.m. \n\nHomeless Except for a Vehicle? Unique Needs\, Humane Responses\nClimate Action\, Influence and Infrastructure Investments\nVoting Rights\, Redistricting and a Looming Supreme Court Decision That Might Change Everything\n\nDetailed descriptions of these and other breakout sessions can be found on the Luskin Summit registration site. Space is limited for this free public event. \nPaul Krekorian\, president of the Los Angeles City Council and councilmember for District 2\, will deliver the keynote address at 8:30 a.m. at the UCLA Faculty Center \nREGISTER NOW\nSchedule\n\nCheck-In and Breakfast: 7:30-8:30 a.m.\nKeynote Address: 8:30 a.m.\nResults of the annual Quality of Life Index: 9 a.m.\nBreakout Sessions: 9:30-11:45 a.m.\nClosing Session Focusing on Homelessness: 12:00pm\n\n\nSponsors (to date)\n\nBank of America\nWeingart Foundation\nDavid Bottinent Foundation\nCalifornia Community Foundation\nThe California Wellness Foundation
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/luskin-summit-2023-our-research-in-action/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center\, California Room\n                  Los Angeles\,               CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Journey for Water\, Climate and Environmental Justice: Luskin Lecture Featuring Catherine Coleman Flowers
DESCRIPTION:This event features MacArthur “genius” award-winning activist Catherine Coleman Flowers and her groundbreaking\, community-driven work on the previously invisible problem of inadequate water and sanitation infrastructure in rural communities in the United States. The second half of the event will feature Catherine in discussion with Joaquin Esquivel\, chair of the California State Water Resources Control Board (California Water Board)\, and Megan Mullin\, faculty director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation (LCI). \nFlowers’ journey is discussed in the broader context of national climate and environmental justice advocacy. The discussion will include the sanitation equity work that will soon be launched by LCI’s Human Right to Water Solutions Lab in collaboration with the California Water Board and partners. \nTime: Check-in begins at 5:30pm with the discussion following at 6:00pm on April 27.\nLocation: Charles E Young Grand Salon – Kerckhoff Hall\, 308 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nSpace is limited for this free event.  \nREGISTER NOW\nLearn More: Catherine Coleman Flowers is an internationally recognized environmental activist\, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient\, and author. She has dedicated her life’s work to advocating for environmental justice\, primarily equal access to clean water and functional sanitation for communities across the United States. \nFounder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ)\, Flowers has spent her career promoting equal access to clean water\, air\, sanitation\, and soil to reduce health and economic disparities in marginalized\, rural communities. In addition\, Flowers serves as Rural Development Manager for Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)\, is a Board Member for the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary\, and sits on the Board of Directors for the Climate Reality Project and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Flowers is also Co-Chair of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on Accelerating Climate Action and Practitioner in Residence at Duke University. \nIn 2021\, her leadership and fervor in fighting for solutions to these issues led her to one of her most notable appointments yet — Vice Chair of the Biden Administration’s inaugural White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Flowers was also named Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainable Leadership at the University of Illinois for the spring 2021 and was awarded an honorary PhD in science from Wesleyan University. \nAs the author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret\, Flowers shares her inspiring story of advocacy\, from childhood to environmental justice champion. She discusses sanitation and its correlation with systemic class\, racial\, and geographic prejudice that affects people across the United States. She has been featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Bloomberg\, The Guardian\, and on PBS. \nCo-Hosted by the:\nUCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\nUCLA Luskin Center for Innovation \nIn collaboration with the following partners \nCo-Sponsor:\nCalifornia Institute for Water Resources at the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources \nPromotional Partners at UCLA:\nInstitute of the Environment and Sustainability\nSustainable LA Grand Challenge\nWater Resources Group
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/journey-for-water-climate-and-environmental-justice-catherine-flowers-lecture/
LOCATION:UCLA’s Kerkhoff Hall Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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