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USGBC Equity Summit (Spring 2020)

May 28, 2020 10:00 am - May 29, 2020 05:30 pm EST

Better buildings mean better lives for all.

USGBC’s vision means putting people first. In this inaugural summit, we will convene and listen to USGBC members, sustainability advocates, key social and environmental justice leaders, and economic and community development experts.

Participants will share how their work acts on equity by creating better lives for people and moves the needle for green buildings, cities, and communities. Together we look forward at building healthy, thriving people, communities, and cities for all.

Social Equity is imperative to create health, thriving people and lives. It must be deeply embedded into how we hold ourselves accountable as an organization and community. This summit is a call to action to define how we raise the standard of living for all.

USGBC will select three presenters as “winners” and feature their ideas at Greenbuild and interview them for a spotlight in a USGBC Equity Report.

Speakers

Keepers of the Heart

Keepers of the Heart are a core group of individuals who represent and have historically championed USGBC’s work in equity. This team of leaders will lead conversations and carry the banner for the work that must be done—holding USGBC to high standard as we develop and implement the Equity Road Map

Emily Andrews

Executive Director, USGBC - Missouri Gateway

George Bandy, Jr.

Chief Sustainability Officer, Mohawk

Jennifer Sheffield

Head of LEED Consulting, GBWAWA

Marge Anderson

Executive Vice President, Slipstream

Susan Kaplan

Founder, BuildingWrx

Amy King

Co-Founder, Good Coworking

Sarah Robinson

Product Sustainability Manager, Tarkett North America

Dr. Traci Rose Rider

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Doctor of Design Faculty, N.C. State College of Design

Challengers

These participants represent the broader landscape of organizations and leadership working to advance equity. They will participate in the second day to present on their work and their landscape, challenge ideas and proposals from first day participants, identify gaps and opportunities.

Antoine Bryant

Organizational Liaison, National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) | Project Manager/Business Development, Moody Nolan

Majora Carter

CEO, Majora Carter Group LLC | Owner, The Boogie Down Grind Café

Nori Catabay

Green Building Team Program Manager, King County

Dianne Dillon Ridgely

Board of Directors, Interface, Inc.

Denise Fairchild, PhD

President & CEO, Emerald Cities Collaborative

Osvaldo "Ozzie" Gonzalez, LEED AP

Independent Business Owner, P3 Consulting

Ron Hantz

President of Board of Directors, Network for Developing Conscious Communities

Dr. S. Atyia Martin, CEM

CEO & Founder, All Aces Inc.

Jerome Ringo

Chairman, Zoetic Global | Goodwill Ambassador - Trade & Investment, Pan-African Parliament

Euneika Rogers-Sipp

Founder, Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates

Nathaniel Smith

Founder and Chief Equity Officer, Partnership for Southern Equity

Schedule

Attendees are welcome to attend all or part of the summit.

Thursday May 28, 2020
9:45 a.m.	Virtual Doors open
10:00 a.m.	Welcome & Setting Intention: A New Living Standard, Mahesh Ramanujam, President & CEO, USGBC & GBCI
10:10 a.m.	Progress and perspectives from USGBCs Social Equity Working Group, Joel Ann Todd
10:20 a.m.	USGBC’s Progress and Perspectives, Kimberly Lewis, Senior Vice President, USGBC
10:30 a.m.	Panel One: Governance, Keepers of the Heart: George Bandy & Susan Kaplan Affordable housing is integral to USGBC's four pillars: sustainability, resilience, equity, and health \| Kimberly Vermeer \| Urban Habitat Initiatives Inc. Assessing ‘Current State’ to Inform Pro-equity Project Development \| Richard Gelb \| Public Health Seattle/King County Equitable Communication in Richmond, VA: One Size Does NOT Fit All \| Kendra Norrell \| City of Richmond Office of Sustainability Equitable Communities: A Holistic Approach to Justice and Access \| Rand Ekman \| HKS, Inc
12:00 p.m.	Break
12:30 p.m.	Panel Two: Affordability & Economic Empowerment, Keepers of the Heart: Marge Anderson & Emily Andrews Equitable Electrification: Decarbonizing Existing Affordable Housing to Participate in Our Clean Energy Future \| Sarah Hill \| Association for Energy Affordability (AEA) Green Equity Matters \| Stanford Garner \| RG Collaborative, LLC Promoting Economic Prosperity: Removing Barriers to Employment in the Construction Industry \| Chun Yee Yip \| Lendlease The Building Electrification Equity Project \|Avni Jamdar \| Emerald Cities Collaborative
2:00 p.m.	Break
2:15 p.m.	Panel Three: Equitable Access, Keepers of the Heart: Sarah Robinson & Jennifer Sheffield Accelerating the Development of Inclusive, Catalytic and Socially Impactful Projects that Transform Cleveland’s Neighborhoods \| Nicole Stika \| Greater Cleveland Partnership Community Owned Land & Housing: EB PREC Organizes for Long-Term Change \| Noni Session \| East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Equity In Design: Rethinking Disability \| Ganesh Nayak \| Metier Consulting, Inc Four Steps Forward for Inclusion \| Gail Napell \| Gensler
3:45 p.m.	Break
4:00 p.m.	Panel 4: Outside the Box: Keepers of the Heart: Amy King & Traci Rider Are Equity and Quality of Life the Same Thing? \| Walker Wells \| Raimi + Associates/UCLA Equity by Design \| Sarah Talkington \| Austin Energy Green Building Getting to Equity: Some Lessons Learned on Project Haiti \| Roger Limoges \| U.S. Green Building Council How Sustainable Forests and Green Buildings Create Social Equity\| Daniel Pellegrom \| Sustainable Forestry Initiative Navigating High Performance Technology and Gender Equity in Building Engineering \| Sara Neff \| Kilroy Realty Corporation
5:40 p.m.	Event adjourns for day
Friday May 29, 2020
9:45 a.m.	Virtual Doors open
10:00 a.m.	Welcome & Setting Intention: A New Living Standard, Mahesh Ramanujam, President & CEO, USGBC & GBCI
10:10 a.m.	Summary of Day 1 Panels, Keepers of the Heart
11:30 a.m.	Challengers Round 1 Majora Carter \| CEO, Majora Carter Group LLC \| Owner, The Boogie Down Grind Café Nori Catabay \| Green Building Team Program Manager \| King County Jerome Ringo \| Chairman, Zoetic Global \| Goodwill Ambassador - Trade & Investment, Pan-African Parliament Antoine Bryant \| Organizational Liaison, National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) \| Project Manager/Business Development, Moody Nolan Dianne Dillon Ridgely \| Board of Directors \| Interface, Inc. Dr. S. Atyia Martin, CEM \| CEO & Founder \| All Access Inc.
12:30 p.m.	Break
1:00 p.m.	Challengers Round 2 Denise Fairchild, PhD \| President & CEO \| Emerald Cities Collaborative Ron Hantz \| President of Board of Directors \| Network for Developing Conscious Communities Euneika Rogers-Sipp \| Founder \| Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates Osvaldo "Ozzie" Gonzalez, LEED AP \| Independent Business Owner \| P3 Consulting Nathaniel Smith \| Founder and Chief Equity Officer \| Partnership for Southern Equity
2:00 p.m.	Break
2:30 p.m.	Action Team Break Outs
4:30 p.m.	Closing Remarks
4:45 p.m.	Day 2 Adjourns

Contact Us

If you have any questions or trouble logging in to the Summit, please contact equity@usgbc.org.