KEYNOTE: TITLE COMING SOON
Water Rally Speakers and Presenters
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
ANTHONY DAVIS, JR.
GROUNDWORK PROJECT
DR. MARCUS BRIGGS-CLOUD
Ekvn-Yefolecv
KEYNOTE: RETURNING TO OUR HOMELANDS
FRIDAY DEEP DIVE ON DATA CENTERS
Friday, March 20 from 2 – 4 pm
charles miller
Alabama Rivers Alliance
ryan anderson
southern environmental law center
friday welcome: take me to the river
Friday, March 20 | 4:30 – 6 pm
Dr. Bill Deustch
Author + founder of alabama water watch
Phillip Howard
Conservation Fund
dR. Marcus Briggs-Cloud
Ekvn-Yefolecv
saturday morning plenary: the session as we saw it
Saturday, March 21 | 8:45 – 9: 45 am
John Dodd
Energy Alabama
luke kiszla
mobile baykeeper
charles miller
Alabama Rivers Alliance
SATURDAY breakout sessions i
Saturday, March 21 | 10 – 11 am
bennett bearden
geological survey of al
Statewide Water Planning
Greg Guthrie
Geological Survey of AL
Statewide Water Planning
charles miller
Alabama Rivers Alliance
Statewide Water Planning
Jacob Smith
Alabama Arise
The F Word
Julianne Tharp
gasp
Turning the Tide with Storytelling: Deep Canvassing
Jennifer Barker
ADEM
Improving Water Quality: On the Ground Efforts to Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution in the Alabama River Basin
BREAKOUT SESSIONS II
Saturday, March 21 | 11:15 am – 12: 15 am
V MILLER, MODERATOR
Alabama rivers alliance
Bridging Gaps to Healthy Water Infrastructure In Rural Alabama
Kathleen Kirkpatrick
The Capacity Collaborative
Bridging Gaps to Healthy Water Infrastructure In Rural Alabama
Andre Ivey
Southern Poverty Law Center
Bridging Gaps to Healthy Water Infrastructure In Rural Alabama
Portia Shepherd
BlackBelt Women Rising
Bridging Gaps to Healthy Water Infrastructure In Rural Alabama
Sheree Martin
Energy Alabama
Alabama’s Energy Future
Jack West
Alabama Rivers Alliance
Alabama’s Energy Future
Debbie Chang
Citizens Climate Lobby
How YOU can help get out the Environmental Vote in Alabama!
Terah boyd
selc
Mic Drop: Media Training
for Advocacy
SATURDAY LUNCH KEYNOTE
ANTHONY DAVIS, JR.
GROUNDWORK PROJECT
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Description coming soon!
BREAKOUT SESSIONS III
Saturday, March 21 | 3 – 4 PM
Anthony davis, jr.
groundwork project
Staying Power: Designing Issue-Based Campaigns That Last and Bring The Next Generation In
david butler
cahaba river coalition
Eyes Wide Open
Dr. Bill Deutsch
author
Celebrating Alabama’s Biodiversity and Communicating
About it in a New Ways
ANDREW SZYMANSKI, MODERATOR
MONTGOMERY CITY COUNCILOR
WORKING WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Carletta Davis
Mayor, Prichard
WORKING WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT
isaiah sankey
montgomery county commissioner
WORKING WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT
TBD
TBD
WORKING WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SATURDAY DINNER KEYNOTE: RETURNING TO OUR HOMELANDS
dR. MARCUS BRiGGS-CLOUD
Ekvn-Yefolecv
We are in for a special treat and truly unique opportunity. Marcus Briggs-Cloud will provide an overview of Ekvn-Yefolecv (ee-gun yee-full-lee-juh), a climate-positive, income-sharing ecovillage community of Indigenous Maskoke People who, after 180 years of having been forcibly removed from traditional homelands – in what is commonly/colonially known as central Alabama – returned in January 2018 with unwavering commitments to: the revitalization of Maskoke language and culture, natural building construction, ecological restoration, endangered species conservation, restorative economics, and regenerative agriculture. Designed as a decolonization and reindigenization paradigm shift, the community seeks to exemplify a Just Transition from extractive economies to more equitable, culturally and ecologically regenerative lifeways, all while serving as a replicable archetype for other communities to manifest in their own culturally responsive ways.
SUNDAY CLOSING PLENARY
Sunday, March 22 | 9 – 10:30 am
PERRY DOWELL
GASP
Alexa Hightower
Law Student
Kala Bhattar
uab
Mandy Wong-Davis
Law Student
