Symposium Agenda
8-8:30am: Continental Breakfast
8:35-8:55am: Welcome Address
9:00-9:30am: The Work of the Food Trust & the Future of Food Advocacy
Brian Lang, Director, Supermarket Campaign, The Food Trust
9:35-10:05am: Philadelphia2035: The Effort & The Outcomes
Danielle DiLeo Kim, AIA, Principal, Locus Partners; Special Consultant to the Philadelphia City Planning Commission
10:10-10:40am: Creating New Models for Addressing Community Needs & Issues
Story Bellows & Jeff Friedman, Co-Directors of the Office of New Urban Mechanics
10:45-11:15am: Building Safe Communities & Its Effect on Identity Formation
Alex Keating, Project Manager for Global Initiatives, Penn Institute for Urban Research
11:20-11:50am: Preparing for the Past of Urbanism: A Psychoanalysis of ‘We the City.’
Dr. Mindy Fullilove, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
11:55am-12:10pm: Break
12:15-12:45pm: ‘The Idea Bar’ – a conversation amongst attendees on how we collectively build sustainable communities of the future
12:50-1:20pm: Lunch
1:25-2:15pm: Keynote Address by Jeremy Nowak, President of J Nowak and Associates, LLC; Chair of the Board of Directors of The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; and former founding President of The Reinvestment Fund
2:20-3:05pm: Panel Discussion: A Conversation on Urbanism
Panelists: J. Phillip Thompson, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Dr. Samuel Little, founding president of National Alliance of Resident Services in Affordable & Assisted Housing; Rosetta C. Lue, Chief Customer Service Officer for the City of Philadelphia and Director of Philly 311; and Michael Froehlich, President of Cedar Park Neighbors
3:10-3:30pm: Closing Remarks from Sponsors, Community Partners, and ResilienC