Muir Symposium: California and the Birth of a New Environmentalism

Creation of a New Environmentalism – Where Might We Go From Here?

Creation of a New Environmentalism in California

keynote lecture by

Barbara Romero
Deputy Mayor for City Services
Former City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works Commissioner

Welcoming & closing remarks by

• Jon Christensen , Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA Department of History, and the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
• Mark Gold, UCLA Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability
• Peter Kareiva, Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
• Glen MacDonald, Distinguished Professor and John Muir Memorial Chair, UCLA Department of Geography

panel discussions

Creation of a New Environmentalism – Where Might We Go From Here?

The View from on the Ground

Moderator: Paul Ong, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies, UCLA

• Fernando Cazares, Senior Program Manager, The Trust for Public Land
• Taylor Thomas, Research and Policy Analyst, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
• Belinda Faustinos, Consultant, San Gabriel Mountains Forever
• Alfredo Gonzalez, Program Officer, Resource Legacy Fund
• Roxana Tynan, Executive Director, LANNE.org

Academic Perspectives Panel

Moderator: Thomas Gillespie, Professor, UCLA Department of Geography

• Carolyn Finney, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
• Laura Pulido, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California
• Mary Cadenasso, Director, Cadenasso Landscape and Urban Ecology (CLUE) Lab and Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
• Jon Christensen , Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA Department of History, and the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities