H20h! Panel: Connecting Water Issues to Regional Policy
You saw the film, Blue Gold.
You read the book, Blue Covenant.
You heard Maude Barlow…or can here if you missed it
http://saphira.tns.utk.edu/~patw/bakercenter/
Now, bring it all together and learn what you can do!
Feb. 9, 4:30 p.m.
Toyota Auditorium
Panelists Include:
Paul Sloan, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
Randall W. Gentry, Ph.D., Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment
Dean Hill Rivkin, UT College of Law
Renee Hoyas, Tennessee Clean Water Network
Panelists will engage the audience in a discussion about how water issues
presented in other H2Oh! events are relevant to our region; what state, local
and community organizations are doing about these issues; what the
challenges are to resolving those issues; and where we go from here?
• Randall W. Gentry, Ph.D., Institute for a Secure and Sustainable
Environment
Dr. Gentry is the President & CEO, University of Tennessee Research
Foundation, Director of the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable
Environment, and the Director of the Southeastern Water Resources
Institute. His research program is focused on the evaluation of groundwater
hydrologic interfaces. The implementation of this research agenda has
involved the evaluation of highly localized systems and more broad scale
watershed processes. This research direction has allowed Randy to participate
with and develop strong multi-disciplinary teams.
• Dean Hill Rivkin, UT College of Law
Dean Hill Rivkin is College of Law Distinguished Professor at UT Law School. He
has practiced and taught environmental law for nearly 40 years. He has
litigated a number of Clean Water Act cases throughout the region. His
scholarship focuses on issues of environmental justice. Since 2000, he has
served as Director of the AALS Equal Justice Project. Prof. Rivkin has also
served as a visiting professor at the UCLA Law School, the University of
Maryland Law School, and, in 2002 and 2004, at Harvard Law School.
• Paul Sloan, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
Since April 2005, Paul Sloan has served as Deputy Commissioner of
Environment at the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
He heads the department’s Bureau of Environment and leads the senior
management team responsible for safeguarding human health and the
environment by protecting and improving the quality of Tennessee’s land, air
and water. While at TDEC, he has worked closely with the Governor’s Office
and other local, state and federal agencies on critical issues involving water
resources, energy conservation, alternative fuels and sustainability in
Tennessee. Paul has served as co-chairperson of Governor Phil Bredesen’s
Alternative Fuels Working Group, member of the Governor’s Energy Task Force
and member of the Tennessee Energy Efficient Schools Council. Paul was a
founding board member of Cumberland Region Tomorrow, a former trustee of
The Nature Conservancy and a board member of the Cumberland River
Compact. He holds a law degree from Vanderbilt University and undergraduate
degree from Williams College.
• Renee Hoyas, Tennessee Clean Water Network
Renée Victoria Hoyos became TCWN’s Executive Director in October 2003.
Renée has most recently worked with the California Resources Agency and
served as Special Assistant to Secretary Nichols for Watersheds and
Outreach. While there, one of her major priorities was creating a watershed
management policy and program to guide the State in its long-term
development strategies. In addition to working in watershed management, she
was also the environmental education and environmental justice coordinator,
and the Agency’s point of contact for Wild and Scenic Rivers issues. Renée’s
nonprofit experience includes a work with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center
in San Francisco. Renée holds a Masters of Agriculture and Management
degree (with concentration in nonprofit organization management) as well as a
Masters of Avian Science degree, both from the University of California in
Davis.
Amy K. Gibson, Ph.D.
Director of Communications and Public Programming
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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