Track IV: Waking up a Sleeping Giant: Closing the Loopholes to Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental and Civil Rights Laws Statues
Session III (Friday, August 26, 8:00 am – 10:00 am)
Session Overview: This session will be comprised of two panels: Waking-Up a Sleeping Giant: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Policy vs. Reality: Closing the Loopholes to Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental and Civil Rights Laws and Statues.
Panel 1: Waking-Up a Sleeping Giant: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title VI (8:00am-9:00am)
Speaker
Organization
Topic Area
Leslie Fields, Esq.,
Sierra Club
Moderator, Q&A
Barbara Arnwine
Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Rafael DeLeon
Director, EPA, Office of Civil Rights
Nathalie Walker
Co-Director, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
TBD
U.S. Department of Justice
Brent Newell
General Counsel, Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
Omega Wilson
West End Revitalization Association , Inc. Mebane, NC
Panel 2: Policy vs. Reality: Closing the Loopholes to Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental and Civil Rights Laws and Statues (9:00am-10:00am)
Speaker
Organization
Topic Area
Vernice Miller-Travis
Maryland Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities
Detroit City Council Research and Analysis Division
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