(Part 4 of 4) Expo '74: 50 years of Environmental Justice in the Inland Northwest

Part 4 of 4

The Gonzaga Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment is honored to co-sponsor "Expo '74: 50 years of Environmental Justice in the Inland Northwest."

Fifty years ago, the Spokane community hosted the first environmentally-themed world’s fair. The Gonzaga Climate Institute, in collaboration with the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington, the Washington State Attorney General, and the Gonzaga Law School Center for Law, Ethics, and Commerce, hosted a one day event at Gonzaga looking retrospectively at the environmental justice work done over this half century and what work remains to be done in the coming decades.

Co-sponsors:
Gonzaga Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment
United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington
Washington State Attorney General's Office
Gonzaga Law School's Center for Law, Ethics, and Commerce

Program:
9:00-9:30: Welcome remarks
--Jacob Rooksby, JD, PhD
--Brian G. Henning, PhD

9:30-10:00: Vanessa Waldref – United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington

10:15-12:00: Spokane River Panel – Moderated by Vanessa Waldref
--Brooke Beeler, Eastern Region Director, Washington Department of Ecology
--Marlene Feist, Public Works Director, City of Spokane
--Margo Hill, MURP, J.D., Eastern Washington University
--Jerry White, Waterkeeper and Executive Director Emeritus, Spokane Riverkeeper

1:00-2:00: Cliff Villa, Deputy Assistant Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency

2:20-4:00: Enforcement Panel
--Twa-le Abrahamson, Executive Director, Indigenous Rights and Reparation Foundation
--Bill Sherman, Assistant Attorney General, Washington State Attorney General's Office
--Colleen Melody, Civil Rights Division Chief, Washington State Attorney General's Office
--Katy Scott, Water Protector, Spokane Riverkeeper

4:00-5:00: Future of Environmental Justice in the Inland Northwest – Moderated by Dr. Brian G. Henning
--Vanessa Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington
--Cliff Villa, Deputy Assistant Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency
--Greg Gordon, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair of Environmental Studies, Gonzaga University

More information on the Climate Institute at http://www.gonzaga.edu/ClimateInstitute

ClimateInstitute@gonzaga.edu

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