Liam's Legacy Symposium: Shaping a Sustainable City

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Thursday November 8, 2012 - Friday November 9, 2012
      3:30 pm - 4:59 pm
  • Location: Clary Theater, Bill Moore Student Success Center
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Contact

Greg Nobles
404-385-7535

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Full Summary: Kasim Reed, mayor of Atlanta, will give a keynote and Jacqueline Jones Royster, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, will moderate a panel of speakers discussing sustainability in Atlanta.

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Kasim Reed, mayor of Atlanta, will give a keynote and Jacqueline Jones Royster, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, will moderate a panel of speakers discussing sustainability in Atlanta.

The event takes place 4:30-6 pm., Thursday, November 8, 2012 in the Clary Theater of the Bill Moore Student Success Center. View the flyer.

Panelists include:

  • Dennis Creech, Executive Director, Southface
  • Sabir Khan, Associate Professor, College of Architecture
  • Demarcus Peters, Executive Director, English Avenue Neighborhood Association
  • Susan Pierce-Cunningham, Neighborwoods Director, Trees Atlanta
  • Michael Sizemore, Senior Principal, The Sizemore Group

This symposium honors the memory of Liam Rattray (1989-2011), a student in the Georgia Tech Honors Program whose commitment to sustainability and social justice provides a compelling model for intellectual and civic engagement for us all, no matter what our age.

 

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Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

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Categories
Arts and Performance, Conference/Symposium, Student sponsored
Keywords
Kasim Reed, Liam Rattray, sustainability
Status
  • Created By: Rebecca Rolfe
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Oct 25, 2012 - 5:50am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:00pm