May 31
Fitzsimmons Event Hall
• 9:00 - 9:30 a.m.: The State of the Energy Transition and the Need for Community Engagement, Fitzsimmons Event Hall
Introduction: Evan Michelson, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Keynote Speaker: Kate Gordon, Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy; Visiting Scholar, U.C. Berkeley, Haas School of Business
• 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.: Panel #1: Community Perspectives on Community Engagement, Fitzsimmons Event Hall
o Moderator: JoRee WhiteClay-LaFrance, Apsaalooke Energy Justice Leadership Institute; PhD Candidate, Soil & Water Science, University of Arizona
o Panelists:
Autumn Crowe, Interim Executive Director, WV Rivers
Devin MacGoy, Energy Democracy Community Organizer, GreenRoots
Arturo Massol-Deyá, Executive Director, Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas
• 11:00 - 11:15 a.m.: Coffee Break
• 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.: Panel #2: Researcher Perspectives on Community Engagement, Fitzsimmons Event Hall
o Moderator: Bindu Panikkar, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Vermont
o Panelists:
Monika Ehrman, Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
Matt Grimley, Research Fellow, University of Minnesota
Julia Haggerty, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, Montana State University
• 12:45 - 2:00 p.m.: Lunch, Fitzsimmons Event Hall
• 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.: Panel #3: Leveraging Resources for Just Energy Transitions, Fitzsimmons Event Hall
o Moderator: Katherine Garvey, Teaching Associate Professor & Director of Land Use & Sustainability Law Clinic, West Virginia University College of Law
o Panelists:
Kate Boyle, Deputy Executive Director, Appalachian Voices
Jacob Hannah, Chief Executive Officer, Center for Coalfield Development
Camille Pannu, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Kerene Tayloe, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Community Engagement