Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER will be participating in these regional/national conferences, talking about our technical work and regional influence:
Join the discussion with these featured mayors* for this two-day summit hosted by the National Brownfield Association:
- Byron Brown, Mayor, Buffalo, NY
- Fred Eisenberg, Mayor, Hamilton, Ontario CA*
- Saul Green, Deputy Mayor, City of Detroit, MI*
- Jay Williams, Mayor, Youngstown, OH
Other breakout sessions focus on: Rightsizing Cities
1A. Populations to Footprint: What’s the Right Ratio?
1B. The Green Ring
1C. Funding Right Sizing Cities
Sediment Cleanup & Waterfront Redevelopment
2A. The Economics of a Waterway: Featuring RIVERKEEPER’s own Jill Spisiak Jedlicka
2B. Upland Development and Sediment Cleanup
2C. Funding Cleanup and Waterfront Redevelopment * denotes invited as of September 16, subject to change.
Join these dynamic speakers* for this two-day summit hosted by the National Brownfield Association:
- Dr. Soji Adelaja, Director, Land Policy Institute, MSU Land Policy Institute
- Steve Banko, Field Office Director, for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Charlie Bartsch, Senior Program Advisor to the OSWER Assistant Administrator, US EPA
- J. Scott Beckerman, PE, LEED AP, Senior Vice President & Group Manager, Environmental Risk Management, Comerica Bank
- Andrew Brenner, General Manager, Sanborn
- Evelyn Brown, Senior Vice President and director of LISC’s Gulf Region Rebuilding Initiative
- Jon Brown, Regional Economist, USACE Buffalo District
- Gregg Calpino, ASLA, Parks and Recreation Practice Leader, JJR
- Robert Colangelo, Executive Director, NBA
- Dave Cowgill, Chief, Technical Assistance and Analysis Branch, US EPA – GLNPO
- Grant Cushing, President, Brownfield Restoration Group, LLC
- John Dondanville, Principal, D5 Group LLC
- David DuBois, Principal, Waterfront Toronto
- Jeff Edstrom, Senior Water Resources Project Manager, Environmental Consulting & Technology
- Dave Flynn, ESQ, Partner, Phillips Lytle LLP
- Brooke Furio, Project Analyst, US EPA Region 5
- Mark Gregor, Manager, Environmental Quality Division, City of Rochester
- Jill Spisiak Jedlicka, Director of Ecological Programs, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper
- Dan Kildee, Cofounder and President, Center for Community Progress
- Norman Kurland, Managing Director, Center for Economic & Social Justice/Equity Expansion International, Inc.
- Lorrie Louder, Director of Business & Intergovernmental Affairs, Saint Paul Port Authority
- Elaine Miller, Brownfield Opportunity Area’s Program, NYS Department of State
- Brian Morris, Business Development Consultant, City of Hamilton, Planning & Economic Development
- Bruce Rasher, Vice President, Brokerage Services, CB Richard Ellis
- Rebecca Salminen Witt, President, The Greening of Detroit
- Roger Santiago, Sediment Remediation Program Coordinator, Environment Canada
- Dr. Marc Tuchman, Project Officer, US EPA – GLNPO
- Evan Van Hook, Vice President, Honeywell
- Jon Williams, President, Ontario Specialty Contracting
