Please join the Urban Equity Collaborative (UEC) for our Preventing Climate Displacement With Community Resilience Hubs workshop with Dennis Chestnut and Justin Lini from the Ward 7 Resilience Hub Community Coalition.
UEC is a University of Maryland initiative that employs an intersectional, multidisciplinary, and collaborative approach to community-based research. UEC hosts workshops that bring together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and community leaders to discuss the multiple and compounding forms of dispossession and displacement in urban neighborhoods and their acute impacts on marginalized communities.
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/
When: Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 from 12 – 2 pm; Light refreshments will be provided for all in-person participants
Where: Preinkert Hall, Suite 1221, 7840 Preinkert Drive College Park, MD 20740, and virtually on Zoom
Description: This workshop explains what Resilience Hubs are, where DC’s program came from, and how they can prevent climate displacement by investing in community-serving organizations to create platforms for resilience and recovery.
This workshop will be live-streamed and recorded. To ensure a comfortable and safe environment, the UEC requests that the workshop portion of the event remain intimate at a 30-person capacity.