Join a global movement from your own backyard
Friday, April 26, 2024
8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Your community needs innovative leaders to enact powerful solutions now and in the future. Take charge and join us for JCCC’s FREE Epicenter 2024: Local Environmental Justice.
Local environmental justice is an initiative driven by inclusivity and involvement, examining how the policies and practices enacted in our community have broad, often unequal, environmental and health effects on those who live here.
Discover how you can effect change at the local level and inspire others to connect and collaborate.
Geared for high school juniors/seniors and college undergrads, Epicenter 2024 is open to anyone who wants to be a sustainability change-maker in environmental justice. Registration is required, with a deadline of April 19, 2024. Participants do not have to stay the whole day and can register for whichever session(s) they would like!
Conference Agenda
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Time |
Location |
Session |
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8:30-9 a.m. |
Nerman Atrium |
Check-in and continental breakfast (free for Epicenter participants) |
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9-9:05 a.m. |
NMOCA 217 |
Welcome and Introduction |
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9:05-9:50 a.m. |
NMOCA 217 |
Keynote: |
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10:05-10:50 a.m. |
NMOCA 217 |
Panel Speakers: |
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11-11:50 a.m. |
RC 101 A/B |
Lunch (free for Epicenter participants) |
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12-1:45 p.m. |
RC 101 C/D |
Interactive activity on local environmental justice plus a group discussion and reflection |
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1:45-2 p.m. |
RC 101 C/D |
Closing remarks |
Meet our speakers
- Rachel (Rah) N.R. Jefferson, Executive Director of Groundwork Northeast Revitalization Group
- Angelica (Jellie) Chavez Duckworth, Founder of LivZero and Director of Community Initiatives at Greenlink Analytics
- Dina Newman, Director of UMKC’s Center for Neighborhoods
- Tru-Kechia (Kechia) Smith, Director of Environmental Justice and Organizational Growth at Bridging the Gap