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Detailed Agenda SATURDAY » FEBRUARY 20, 2016 Brett KenCairn City of Boulder Brett KenCairn has worked for many years in community-based sustainable development. He started as a community organizer in 1983 with ACORN, one of the largest low- and moderate-income organizing organizations in the country. The first 20 years of his career were focused primarily on natural resource-based communities, particularly forestbased communities in the U.S. Northwest and Southwest. Here, he furthered multi-stakeholder collaborations bringing together loggers, environmentalists, federal land management agencies, and local residents. He also helped found the nation’s first sustainable forest management and products certification program and the Forest Stewardship Council. KenCairn has also spent time working in native and Latino communities, and helped launch several nonprofits working on these issues including Indigenous Community Enterprises. His most recent initiative before coming to work for the City of Boulder was the establishment of an organization assisting returning war veterans to find jobs in green industries—Veterans Green Jobs. He currently works as the City of Boulder’s senior environment and climate planner where he is responsible for helping coordinate the development of the city’s Climate Commitment Initiative. Colette Pichon Battle Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy Clean Energy & Environmental Justice Policy Academy | 2016 18 Colette Pichon Battle, Esq. is a native of Louisiana who over the past nine years has worked with local communities, national funders, and elected officials around equity in the post-Katrina/post-BP disaster Gulf Coast. In 2014 Pichon Battle was selected for the Young Climate Justice National Fellowship based on her work with coastal communities of color. Pichon Battle was recently awarded the 2015 Movement Builder Award from the U.S. Human Rights Network for her “people-centered” approach to human rights work with Gulf Coast communities on the front line of climate change. In 2015 Pichon Battle was selected as an Echoing Green Climate Fellow as a social entrepreneur of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP). As executive director, Pichon Battle develops and directs programming focused on global migration, community economic development, climate justice, and equitable disaster recovery. Pichon Battle was a lead coordinator for Gulf South Rising 2015, a regional initiative around climate justice and just

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