See below for the program. Additional session details coming soon.
Art as Infrastructure: Building Community Resilience Through Tactical Urbanism in Atlanta Parks
Speakers: Arelious Cooper, Jr. (Art In The Paint), Fred Hope, Sr.
Building a Climate Resilient ATL
Speakers: Chandra Farley (City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and Resilience), J. Olu Baiyewu (City of Atlanta), LaToria Whitehead (LS Whitehead Group LLC)
Collaborating with Youth Corps to Advance Park Resilience
Speakers: Jonathan Johnson (Student Conservation Association), Anamarie Ngala-Bey (West Atlanta Watershed Alliance), Tierney Mountain (Student Conservation Association), Matt Gray (Student Conservation Association)
Collective Ground: Co-Creating Resilient Public Spaces
Speakers: Revonda Cosby (Arabia Mountain Heritage Area Alliance), Kofi Boone (North Carolina State University), Jennie Lynn Rudder (Gresham Smith), Carley Rickles (Martin Rickles Studio)
Ecological Resilience in Atlanta
Speakers: Lisa Kruse (Georgia Department of Natural Resources), Michel Kohl (University of Georgia), Taryn Heidel (City of Atlanta Department of Parks & Recreation)
From Metrics to Meaning: Using Community Engagement to Shape Purposeful Park Design
Speakers: Mandi Fung (Land Collective), Candy Isabel (Khamai Strategies), Brian Staresnick (Land Collective), Tessa Lippmann (Land Collective)
Growing Urban Forests – Beyond 2025: Jurisdiction, Capacity, and Landscape Performance
Speakers: Tiffany Giacobazzi (City of Atlanta Department of Parks & Recreation), Hunter Lohse (City of Brownsville, TX), Ian Brown (City of Madison, WI), Gaylan Williams (City of Atlanta Department of Parks & Recreation)
How to Increase Biodiversity, Resilience and Sustainability
Speakers: Jacob Lange (Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners PLLC) Will Medlin (Woodard Curran), William Park (City of Sandy Springs), Jim Newbury
Mapping Water, Mapping Risk: Using Parks to Build Flood-Resilient Communities
Speakers: Hannah Palmer (Author), Genia Billingsley (Canopy ATL), Daniel Krasner (Data Urbanist), Mariann Martin (Canopy ATL)
Nurturing Nature in Neighborhoods: Design Strategies for Cultivating Community Resilience
Speakers: Karan Wood (Environmental Education Alliance), Aubrey Sabba (Starr Whitehouse), Jerry Hightower (National Park Service)
Resilience in the Hot Zone: Community Storytelling and Data Mapping with UrbanHeatATL
Speakers: Dr. Na’Taki Osborne Jelks (Spelman College & West Atlanta Watershed Alliance) Destinee Whitaker (West Atlanta Watershed Alliance), Ashley Boone (Georgia Institute of Technology), Quanda Spencer (West Atlanta Watershed Alliance)
State of the Climate: Climate Change 101
Speaker: Mark Papier (Meteorologist)
Stewardship for People and Parks: Building Ecological and Community Resilience Across Metro Atlanta
Speakers: Iris Chen (Brown University), Danielle Bunch (Clayton County Water Authority), Gwendolyn Stegall (Friends of Hairston Park), Tasha Messer (RPCA Naturalist)
Tree Risk Assessment Tree Walk
Speakers: Seth Hawkins (Georgia Forestry Commission), Edward Morrow (Private Arborist)
UGA Extension, Growing and Cooking Healthy Food in Parks
Speakers: Terri Carter (University of Georgia Extension), Charlie Monroe (Cobb County)
Unlocking Park Power
Speakers: Adam Williamson (TSW Design), Peyton Peterson (TSW Design), Chris Bass (City of Douglasville)