EPOC Breaking the Green Ceiling Summit
People of color comprise 36% of the U.S. population, but do not exceed 16% of the staff of environmental organizations. For decades, environmental organizations have stressed the value of diversity, however the diversity composition has not broken this 16% green ceiling.
The Breaking the Green Ceiling Summit will grow and strengthen the representation of people of color in leadership roles across the environmental sector by providing leadership training and professional development skills, and encouraging innovation and partnership across projects, programs, and organizations.
Join us for a day of workshops, speakers, and sessions centered around Environmental Professionals of Color!
Saturday, September 7, 8 AM - 5 PM
El Centro de la Raza
Buy your tickets today! This event is for People of Color.
Have questions, suggestions, or resources to share, or want to get involved? Email the organizers at EPOCSeattleChapter@gmail.com.
Keynote Speaker: Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, Ph.D., MPH
Na’Taki Osborne Jelks is a nationally-recognized leader in engaging urban communities and youth of color in environmental stewardship through hands-on watershed and land restoration initiatives, environmental education, and training.
See the full Program and Schedule here!
Schedule
8:00-9:00 Resource fair at the beginning, check-in, coffee, and light breakfast
9:00-9:15 Opening and Indigenous recognition with Ken Workman
9:15-9:30 EPOC Welcome
9:40-10:50 Sessions
11:00-12:10 Sessions
12:20-1:30 Lunch, Resource Fair continued
1:30-2:00 Keynote Speaker, Na'Taki Osborne Jelks
2:10-3:20 Sessions
3:30-4:40 Sessions
4:45-5:00 Closing
5:00-6:00 Happy Hour
Sessions Include:
- SPONSORS -
Brainerd Foundation
NW Fund for the Environment
The Nature Conservancy in Washington
Conservation Northwest
City of Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment
King County Hazardous Waste
Washington Environmental Council & Washington Conservation Voters
The Wilderness Society
Jacobs Engineering
Earth Corps
Forterra
The Breaking the Green Ceiling Summit will grow and strengthen the representation of people of color in leadership roles across the environmental sector by providing leadership training and professional development skills, and encouraging innovation and partnership across projects, programs, and organizations.
Join us for a day of workshops, speakers, and sessions centered around Environmental Professionals of Color!
Saturday, September 7, 8 AM - 5 PM
El Centro de la Raza
Buy your tickets today! This event is for People of Color.
Have questions, suggestions, or resources to share, or want to get involved? Email the organizers at EPOCSeattleChapter@gmail.com.
Keynote Speaker: Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, Ph.D., MPH
Na’Taki Osborne Jelks is a nationally-recognized leader in engaging urban communities and youth of color in environmental stewardship through hands-on watershed and land restoration initiatives, environmental education, and training.
See the full Program and Schedule here!
Schedule
8:00-9:00 Resource fair at the beginning, check-in, coffee, and light breakfast
9:00-9:15 Opening and Indigenous recognition with Ken Workman
9:15-9:30 EPOC Welcome
9:40-10:50 Sessions
11:00-12:10 Sessions
12:20-1:30 Lunch, Resource Fair continued
1:30-2:00 Keynote Speaker, Na'Taki Osborne Jelks
2:10-3:20 Sessions
3:30-4:40 Sessions
4:45-5:00 Closing
5:00-6:00 Happy Hour
Sessions Include:
- The Path Forward: Seattle's Green New Deal -- Nancy Huizar and Johnny Fikru (Got Green)
- POC Outdoors -- Outdoor Afro, Outdoor Asian, Latino Outdoors
- White Dominant Culture in the Workplace -- Vera Hoang and Randi Shaw (The Nature Conservancy)
- Learning from Flowers: Science & Metaphysics Across Cultures -- Nat Mengist
- Healthy Healing through Indigenous Knowledge -- Ellany Kayce
- Uses and Development of EJ Tools for Urban Environmental Planning -- Amanda Barnett
- Integrating Creative Expression into Environmental Science -- Jasmine Romgotra
- Panel: Navigating the Path to and through Grad School -- Randi Shaw, Alfonso Orozco, Tiara Moore
- POC in Philanthropy -- Pam Fujita-Yuhas (NW Fund for the Environment), Meredith Higashi (Philanthropy NW), Anji Moraes (Paul G. Allen Philanthropies)
- Stepping Up Community Engagement -- Allan Kafley, Uroosa Fatima (ECOSS)
- A Just Approach to Climate Policy and Organizing -- Sameer Ranade (Front and Centered)
- Surviving and Thriving as a Woman of Color Change Agent in Government -- Jamie Stroble (King County), Christina Billingsley (Port of Seattle), Lylianna Allala (City of Seattle)
- Hiring for Equity: Revamping Job Descriptions -- Sapna Sopori
- Challenge Course for Leadership and Team Building -- Belinda Chin
- This Is Not a Safe Space -- Bam Mendiola
- Sacred Myths -- Graise Lee Jenni, Maria Palamar
- Leading From Where You Are -- Graise Lee Jenni, Mara Palamar
- SPONSORS -
Brainerd Foundation
NW Fund for the Environment
The Nature Conservancy in Washington
Conservation Northwest
City of Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment
King County Hazardous Waste
Washington Environmental Council & Washington Conservation Voters
The Wilderness Society
Jacobs Engineering
Earth Corps
Forterra
