Event

Martín Gutiérrez Lacayo

JPAC Chair

An attorney specializing in environmental law who graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana, Martín Gutiérrez has been known in recent years as the creator of private land conservation schemes in Mexico, including the development of the first ecological easement agreements.

Currently general director of Pronatura México, A.C., and consultant to the World Bank in land conservation and transversal integration, he was for 10 years director of Pronatura’s National Land Conservation Program.

Greg Judelman

Chief Design Officer, The Moment

Greg Judelman is a designer, innovation consultant and brand specialist based in Toronto. His specialty is the conceptualization and facilitation of collaborative design workshops that drive organizational and community transformation. He has led creative process workshops at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, OCAD University, and the University of Toronto School of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and has served on the event design and hosting team at leading edge systems-innovation conferences for the ALIA Institute and Ashoka Forum.

Mr. Judelman is a co-founder and organizer of Design with Dialogue, a Toronto-based monthly gathering of consultants, creative thinkers, technologists and researchers focused on learning and advancing methods for organizational innovation.

Previously, Mr. Judelman worked for Bruce Mau Design, where he focused on the use of communications design as a tool for organizational change and effective learning. He led creative teams on identity, web, experience and strategy projects. From years of work and study in Canada, Europe and Africa he speaks English, French and Spanish.

Craig Applegath

Founding Member of Resilient City

Craig Applegath, a Principal with DIALOG, is an accomplished architect and urban designer. Since earning a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University, Mr. Applegath has garnered a reputation for successfully leading complex institutional planning and design projects, advocating environmentally integrated design and urban resilience.

In addition to his project and practice responsibilities, Mr. Applegath is a sought-after lecturer and writer active within his industry and the community-at-large. He was named a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and contributes to numerous organizations, including the Toronto WeatherWise Partnership, the Sandford Fleming Forum at the University of Toronto and the High-level Advisory Board convened by the European Commission. Mr. Applegath is currently working on a book, “Heroic Cities: How Cities Will Save Our Planet.”

Craig Applegath

Founding Member of Resilient City

Craig Applegath, a Principal with DIALOG, is an accomplished architect and urban designer. Since earning a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University, Mr. Applegath has garnered a reputation for successfully leading complex institutional planning and design projects, advocating environmentally integrated design and urban resilience.

In addition to his project and practice responsibilities, Mr. Applegath is a sought-after lecturer and writer active within his industry and the community-at-large. He was named a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and contributes to numerous organizations, including the Toronto WeatherWise Partnership, the Sandford Fleming Forum at the University of Toronto and the High-level Advisory Board convened by the European Commission. Mr. Applegath is currently working on a book, “Heroic Cities: How Cities Will Save Our Planet.”

Jonathan Waterhouse

Moderator
JPAC member

Alaska Region Director
Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council

Jonathan Waterhouse is the Director of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (YRITWC), a non-profit organization made up of 70 Tribes and First Nations, created to preserve and protect the Yukon Watershed and Native cultures.

During his tenure at YRITWC, Mr. Waterhouse worked to develop the BackHaul Program that removed millions of pounds of recyclables and hazardous waste from the Yukon watershed. Prior to joining YRITWC, Mr. Waterhouse had oversight over management, operations, and financial matters for Green Connection (2003-2004), Alaska Airlines (2000-2003), and Pavlof Services, Inc. (1995-2000). From 1997-2000, Mr. Waterhouse served as City Councilman for the City of Cold Bay, Alaska.

In 1995, Mr. Waterhouse retired from a twenty year career in the United States Navy as a decorated Chief Petty Officer. Mr. Waterhouse is an Advisory Board Member and Community Development Director for the Alaska-Sudan Medical Project, which focuses on building medical clinics and installing clean water systems in Southern Sudan.

Madeleine Redfern

Mayor of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada

Madeleine Redfern is the Mayor of Iqaluit. Ms. Redfern holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Victoria, awarded in conjunction with the Akitsiraq Law School. Following graduation, she served as the first Inuk law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, under Justice Louise Charron.

An outspoken member of the Iqaluit community as a social justice advocate and businessperson, Ms. Redfern has dedicated much of her 20-year career to advancing understanding of the needs and values of Inuit and aboriginal peoples and has worked tirelessly for access to health, educational, and social resources in the North. Passion for her work has taken her to varied roles within both nongovernmental and governmental sectors in northern and southern Canada while maintaining communication with media and her constituents, often through social networking sites such as FaceBook and Twitter.

Fernando Aragón

Consultor Externo, Centro Mario Molina

Fernando Aragón-Durand holds a PhD in Planning Studies from the Development Planning Unit, University College London, specializing in risk, vulnerability and disaster in Latin America urban contexts. He is member of the expert panel of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), working group II, on “Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation,” (chapter 8, Urban areas adaptation to climate change, for the 5th assessment report. He is also a fellow of the Leadership for Environment and Development Program (www.lead.org). For the last 15 years Dr. Aragón-Durand has researched the social construction of disasters and risk at policy and community level.

For more than 15 years he has been a policy consultant, project evaluator and researcher for several institutions in Mexico and has written a number of book chapters and papers on disasters, risk, and climate change adaptation and policy. Dr. Aragón-Durand developed the Climate Change Program for the Universidad Autónoma de Honduras—a project funded by the Adaptation Fund. He is currently doing consultancy work on Insurance and Climate Change Adaptation in Mexico for the National Institute of Ecology and UNDP. He lectures in the Faculty of Economics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico on the course module “Environmental History, Risk and Disasters,” and is in charge of risk, vulnerability and climate change adaptation analysis for the Mario Molina Centre in Mexico City. He has had extensive teaching experience at high school, undergraduate and graduate level for more than 25 years on ecology, urban environment, disaster risk reduction, sustainable development and political ecology in Mexico.

Dr. Maureen Lichtveld

Freeport McMo Ran Chair of Environmental Policy, Tulane University

Freeport McMoRan Chair of Environmental Policy
Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Maureen Lichtveld, M.D., M.P.H., has worked in environmental public health over 30 years and currently is professor and chair of the Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She holds an endowed chair in environmental policy and serves as associate director for Population Sciences at the Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium. Her research interests include environmentally induced diseases such as asthma and cancer, health disparities, environmental health policy, disaster preparedness, and public health systems. She is an expert in community-based participatory research, emphasizing persistent environmental health threats affecting health disparate communities living in disaster-prone areas. She is the principal investigator for three research consortia addressing environmental health challenges in Gulf Coast communities and was awarded two Gulf Coast-wide projects to strengthen environmental health capacity and literacy. She also serves as a consultant to the Institute of Medicine and is on the editorial boards of globally recognized peer reviewed journals.

John Hankinson

Executive Director, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force

Greg Judelman

Chief Design Officer, The Moment

Martín Gutiérrez Lacayo

JPAC Chair

Martín Gutiérrez Lacayo

JPAC Chair

An attorney specializing in environmental law who graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana, Martín Gutiérrez has been known in recent years as the creator of private land conservation schemes in Mexico, including the development of the first ecological easement agreements.

Currently general director of Pronatura México, A.C., and consultant to the World Bank in land conservation and transversal integration, he was for 10 years director of Pronatura’s National Land Conservation Program.

Greg Judelman

Chief Design Officer, The Moment

Greg Judelman is a designer, innovation consultant and brand specialist based in Toronto. His specialty is the conceptualization and facilitation of collaborative design workshops that drive organizational and community transformation. He has led creative process workshops at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, OCAD University, and the University of Toronto School of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and has served on the event design and hosting team at leading edge systems-innovation conferences for the ALIA Institute and Ashoka Forum.

Mr. Judelman is a co-founder and organizer of Design with Dialogue, a Toronto-based monthly gathering of consultants, creative thinkers, technologists and researchers focused on learning and advancing methods for organizational innovation.

Previously, Mr. Judelman worked for Bruce Mau Design, where he focused on the use of communications design as a tool for organizational change and effective learning. He led creative teams on identity, web, experience and strategy projects. From years of work and study in Canada, Europe and Africa he speaks English, French and Spanish.

Rodolfo Lacy

Moderator
JPAC member

Rodolfo Lacy graduated as an environmental engineer from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) in Mexico City and took a masters degree in environmental planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in the Leadership for the Environment and Development (LEAD) program.

He is the founding president of the Environmental Engineers Association of Mexico, the former executive director of environment pollution prevention and control in the Mexico City government, and the former head of advisors to the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources in Mexico. Currently, Rodolfo Lacy is a researcher and coordinator of strategic studies on energy and environment projects at the Mario Molina Center.

He coordinated and edited the first state of the environment report in Mexico and is the author of the book, Air Quality in the Valley of Mexico (La calidad del aire en el valle de México).

Orlando Cabrera

CEC Program Manager, Air Quality and PRTR, on CEC work on Improving the Environmental Health of Vulnerable Communities in North America

Orlando Cabrera-Rivera has over twenty years of experience in the environmental management field and in the development and implementation of international, national, regional and local environmental pollution management and policy initiatives. Since 2007, Mr. Cabrera-Rivera has been the Manager of the Air Quality and Pollutant Releases Program of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). He coordinates trilateral capacity building and environmental information analysis efforts aimed at enhancing the comparability and accessibility of pollutant release and transfer register (PRTR) data and air quality-related information for North America.

Mr. Cabrera-Rivera has a bachelors of science degree in meteorology from the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a masters of science degree in land resources management from the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison.

Beverly Wright

Founder and Executive Director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, on Justice and Equity in the Face of Climate Change

Dr. Beverly Wright, environmental justice scholar and advocate, is the founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University in New Orleans. The Center addresses environmental and health inequities along the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor and is a community/university partnership providing education, training, and job placement. Since Hurricane Katrina, the Center has focused on the education, training, and public policy needs of those communities affected by the BP oil spill disaster and on the displaced African-American residents of New Orleans.

Dr. Wright currently co-chairs the Environmental Justice Climate Change Initiative, is a member of the Commission Delegation to the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP15, 16 & 17), and serves as the president of the African American Women of Purpose and Power in New Orleans. She previously served on NEJAC, the Corps of Engineers’ Environmental Advisory Board, the Mayor’s Office of Environmental Affairs’ Brownfields Consortium, the US Commission on Civil Rights and the New Orleans’ Select Committee for the Sewerage and Water Board, and chaired the 2002 Second National People of Color Leadership Summit.

Dr. Wright received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2003, the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Award in 2006, the 2008 EPA Environmental Justice Achievement Award, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition 2008 Community Award, the Ford Motor Company’s Freedom’s Sisters Award in July of 2009, the prestigious 2009 Heinz Award as well as the 2010 Beta Kappa Chi Humanitarian Assistance Award of the National Institute of Science and the 2010 Conrad Arensberg Award from the Society for the Anthropology of Work. In 2011, Dr. Wright received the Urban Affairs Association’s SAGE Activist Scholar Award and, in May 2012, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York Sociology Department, where she presented the departmental commencement address.

Argelia Pérez Luviano

Leader of the first Transition Community in Mexico on Transition Towns, New Proposals for Urban Adaptation and Self-sufficiency

Argelia Pérez Luviano is in the treasurer of Transition Ensenada, a nonprofit organization in Baja California, Mexico. Transition Ensenada tries to encourage community resilience and collective action and helps to create sustainable settlements that will withstand energy shocks accompanying peak oil.

With a group of friends, Ms Pérez is also starting a project to develop a local market economy that will provide organic food, healthy cooking and medicinal plants. This project will also include courses, workshops and a specialized library.

Ms Pérez is passionate about learning and applying permaculture principles and will begin studying for a Permaculture Design Certificate with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton in September 2012.

Prior to joining Transition Initiatives projects, Ms Pérez was a senior QA computer engineer with Code Services, until one day Robert Frey, the founder of Transition Ensenada, invited her to take a course on “Sustainable Home Living,” and from that day forward there was no turning back. She had begun to see the world in a whole new way and since has devoted herself to trying to teach and inspire others to be part of this movement.

Martín Gutiérrez Lacayo

JPAC Chair

Mitchell J. Landrieu

Mayor of New Orleans
Welcoming remarks

 Evan Lloyd

CEC Executive Director
Remarks

Martín Gutiérrez

Chair of the CEC Joint Public Advisory Committee
Remarks

Peter Kent

Canadian Environment Minister
Remarks

Juan Elvira Quesada

Mexican Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources
Remarks

Lisa P. Jackson

Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency
Welcoming remarks and official opening of the 19th Regular Session of the Council

Martín Gutiérrez

JPAC Chair

An attorney specializing in environmental law who graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana, Martín Gutiérrez has been known in recent years as the creator of private land conservation schemes in Mexico, including the development of the first ecological easement agreements.

Currently general director of Pronatura México, A.C., and consultant to the World Bank in land conservation and transversal integration, he was for 10 years director of Pronatura’s National Land Conservation Program.

Martín Gutiérrez, JPAC Chair

Introduction on the conduct/new format of the Session and introduction of the moderator

Troy Ritter

Presentation and discussion on progress in reducing exposure to airborne contaminants in homes in indigenous communities of Alaska

Enrique Cifuentes

Presentation and discussion on progress in promoting and implementing measures to limit harmful environmental exposures in communities surrounding Lake Chapala

Lisa Hardness

Presentation and discussion on progress on facilitating action to address climate change adaptation needs in indigenous communities in Canada and the United States

(Session to include 45-minute public forum exchange with moderator to field questions from the audience and social media)

Payton Wilkins

Community Resiliency Seminars and workshops