Seattle Race Conference

9th Annual Seattle Race Conference

"Building Community to End Environmental Racism: Learn, Connect, Flourish"

This year's conference was a huge success. Thank you to all the wonderful presenters, volunteers, sponsors, committee members, and everyone who attended. In case you missed the conference the opening program is being premiered on the Seattle Channel.
9th Annual Seattle Race Conference Keynote Address Yalonda Sindé, considered by many to be the mother of the northwest environmental justice movement, gives the keynote address from the 9th Annual Seattle Race Conference.
Upcoming Broadcast Times:

• Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:30 p.m.
• Friday, May 18, 2012 5:00 a.m.
• Sunday, May 20, 2012 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 12th, 2012
8:00AM Registration, 9:00AM-5:00PM Conference
Seattle University, Pigott Hall
901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122

Track 1: Where We’re At: The Environment We Live In
Track 2: Strategies for Change: The Environment that Supports Us
Track 3: Where We’re Going: The Environment Where all Flourish

Morning Keynote by Yalonda Sinde: The Environmental Justice Movement: Our Past, Present, and Future
Yalonda Sindé is considered by many to be the mother of the northwest environmental justice movement. She is a long time community activist and organizational leader who in 1993, helped spearhead the Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ), a grassroots organization in Seattle that gained national recognition for eliminating two major sources of air pollution and mobilizing low income communities and communities of color to work together to achieve justice and equality. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award from the Univ of Wash. Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center and the Samuel B. McKinney Award for Peace and Racial Justice.

Lunchtime Playnote: The New Wilderness Project
The New Wilderness Project playnote invites participants on a journey where they will be entertained; where they will engage with each other; and connect with diversity, leadership and equity through the lens of creative expression. This unique approach uses original music and spoken word poetry choreographed to immersive video and imagery. The poignant themes of each creative piece are woven together by insightful commentary from the presenters and shared experience from the participants to create a dramatic and moving presentation of the issues and opportunities around stewardship, leadership, the human connection to nature and each other, and embracing diversity in our communities.

Capstone Address by Jourdan Keith
Jourdan Keith is the founder and director of Urban Wilderness Project. Her work as a literary artist, environmental educator, community organizer and social justice advocate informs her ongoing development of the R U An Endangered Species?™ curriculum and its' action campaigns. Her honors and awards include Seattle Poet Populist, Seattle Public Library’s first naturalist-in-residence, TEDx speaker, University of Washington's Distinguished Service Award and NW Asian Weekly Eco-Woman Award among others.

Interactive Workshops:

• Featuring Delbert Richardson's The American History Travel Museum: The “Unspoken” Truths
• A Diet for Social Justice: Eating Local & Organic is a Race Issue presented by Consider This
• Bridging Community Needs with Tools and Resources for Action presented by The US EPA
• Building a Culture of Inclusion: Removing Racism from Organizational Culture presented by Nesby + Associates, Inc. and Weyerhaeuser Inc
• Communicating Environmental Justice presented by The Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition
• White Folks in the Environmental Justice Movement presented by The Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites
• And many more!

7 Clock Hours available for educators, $2 per Clock Hour