Sustainability as a part of Civic Engagement Conference tmrw
UMBC hosts regional conference; speakers on sustainability
Join us at UMBC for tomorrow's conference!
Tanvi Gadhia, UMBC's sustainability coordinator, will be speaking on the Breaking Ground panel about her work, Jack Anthony Bautista Neumeier, an SGA senator leading sustainability initiatives and Charlotte will be speaking alongside UMBC's President, Dr Hrabowski!
This particular workshop relates to sustainability:
Connecting Communties with Food
This workshop will discuss the Real Food Challenge as an opportunity for members of the community to engage with the surrounding local food economy by evaluating food sources available on local college campuses. Real Food Challenge is a student initiative aimed at increasing the availability of food that is “local/community based, fair, ecologically sound, and humane” on college campuses. Using their Real Food Calculator, this program works to assess the percentage of “real food” available on a college campus, and then works with the institution to reach a goal of 20% real food. Workshop participants will be apprised of the process of becoming a pilot program, have the opportunity to discuss the feasibility of such a program on their campus/institution, explore coordination between institutions, and examine potential links with other community based service/leadership programs.
http://www.baltimorecollegetown.org/events/service-learning-conference/
More on the UMBC student speakers:
Jack Anthony Bautista Neumeier
Transfer student from Howard Community College
Health Administration & Policy (junior?)
Jack Neumeier is a new SGA senator who hit the ground running when he transferred to UMBC. He is interested in the issue of mental health on college campuses and recently worked to add mental health training to the RA training process. He is creating a community garden on campus and hopes to work through BreakingGround to connect that project to Rita Turner and/or Jill Wrigely's courses on food justice. He is also a HealthLeads Baltimore advocate and involved with the Women's Center's Rebuilding Manhood program (formerly M2M). During his time at Howard Community College, he helped establish bike lanes; advocated for the installation of new dual flush toilets and water-free urinals to reduce water consumption at HCC; helped to found the first Green Building Council chapter at HCC; and was MC at the Solar Decathlon sustainable architecture competition on the National Mall.
Charlotte Keniston
Shriver Center Peaceworker (RCPV)
Graduate student in Imaging and Digital Arts (IMDA)
Charlotte Keniston is a multimedia artist who arrived in Baltimore shortly after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years in rural Guatemala. Living in a Southwest Baltimore "food desert" and highly aware of food waste in the U.S., she began hosting community meals prepared from ingredients that other people have discarded, promoting discussion about food justice. For details on the Food for Thought project, see her BreakingGround blog post. Charlotte has made a notable impression on the Baltimore arts community and was selected as a featured artist in Maryland Art Place’s THIRTY: 30 Creative Minds Under 30. At UMBC she recently served as a civic engagement panelist at the GSA's 35th Annual Graduate Research Conference. See Charlotte's Tumblr for photos and more info on her work (http://baltimoreinsideout.tumblr.com/).
The 3rd student traveled to Kenya to provide safe drinking water.
Tanvi Gadhia, UMBC's sustainability coordinator, will be speaking on the Breaking Ground panel about her work, Jack Anthony Bautista Neumeier, an SGA senator leading sustainability initiatives and Charlotte will be speaking alongside UMBC's President, Dr Hrabowski!
This particular workshop relates to sustainability:
Connecting Communties with Food
This workshop will discuss the Real Food Challenge as an opportunity for members of the community to engage with the surrounding local food economy by evaluating food sources available on local college campuses. Real Food Challenge is a student initiative aimed at increasing the availability of food that is “local/community based, fair, ecologically sound, and humane” on college campuses. Using their Real Food Calculator, this program works to assess the percentage of “real food” available on a college campus, and then works with the institution to reach a goal of 20% real food. Workshop participants will be apprised of the process of becoming a pilot program, have the opportunity to discuss the feasibility of such a program on their campus/institution, explore coordination between institutions, and examine potential links with other community based service/leadership programs.
http://www.baltimorecollegetown.org/events/service-learning-conference/
More on the UMBC student speakers:
Jack Anthony Bautista Neumeier
Transfer student from Howard Community College
Health Administration & Policy (junior?)
Jack Neumeier is a new SGA senator who hit the ground running when he transferred to UMBC. He is interested in the issue of mental health on college campuses and recently worked to add mental health training to the RA training process. He is creating a community garden on campus and hopes to work through BreakingGround to connect that project to Rita Turner and/or Jill Wrigely's courses on food justice. He is also a HealthLeads Baltimore advocate and involved with the Women's Center's Rebuilding Manhood program (formerly M2M). During his time at Howard Community College, he helped establish bike lanes; advocated for the installation of new dual flush toilets and water-free urinals to reduce water consumption at HCC; helped to found the first Green Building Council chapter at HCC; and was MC at the Solar Decathlon sustainable architecture competition on the National Mall.
Charlotte Keniston
Shriver Center Peaceworker (RCPV)
Graduate student in Imaging and Digital Arts (IMDA)
Charlotte Keniston is a multimedia artist who arrived in Baltimore shortly after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years in rural Guatemala. Living in a Southwest Baltimore "food desert" and highly aware of food waste in the U.S., she began hosting community meals prepared from ingredients that other people have discarded, promoting discussion about food justice. For details on the Food for Thought project, see her BreakingGround blog post. Charlotte has made a notable impression on the Baltimore arts community and was selected as a featured artist in Maryland Art Place’s THIRTY: 30 Creative Minds Under 30. At UMBC she recently served as a civic engagement panelist at the GSA's 35th Annual Graduate Research Conference. See Charlotte's Tumblr for photos and more info on her work (http://baltimoreinsideout.tumblr.com/).
The 3rd student traveled to Kenya to provide safe drinking water.
Posted: April 5, 2013, 9:19 AM