Environmental Justice Panel with PEA & Bookmarks
August 20, 2025
Join the Piedmont Environmental Alliance (PEA) and Bookmarks for a conversation on local environmental justice.
This conversation is a collaboration with PEA and the Bookmarks’ Book with Purpose summer initiative, which centers on the book The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee. Learn more about Book with Purpose program, including how to get your copy of The Sum of Us, here.
Tickets: This event is free and open to the public — register now!
When: Wednesday, August 20, 6-7pm
Where: Forsyth County Public Library, 660 W 5th St, Winston Salem NC 27101
Panelists:
- Sabin Center Faculty Affiliate Crystal Dixon, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Environment and Sustainability Studies Programs at Wake Forest University
- Will Hendrick, Environmental Justice Director of the NC Conservation Network,
- José Saucedo, Lead Community Organizer of PowerUpNC
- Aidan Loretz, a Community Organizer working with Haw River Assembly & 7 Directions of Service
Sustainable, Just & Abundantly Wild
November 13, 2025
Join us for a full day of panels and an evening keynote from Dr. Jill Tiefenthaler, CEO of National Geographic Society
At the Sabin Center, we’re using the power of the University to catalyze a global community of innovators, educators, and advocates to solve the essential environmental challenges of our time. As those problems grow in scope and complexity, the need for effective, collective action — from across campus to around the world — accelerates. What systems and relationships must we prioritize to ensure just and sustainable outcomes for people and place? How can leading-edge technologies address age-old problems? How can we integrate scholarship, enterprise, policy, and community to drive meaningful change?
This conference brings together practitioners, academics, and community members to explore these questions while highlighting impactful approaches from here on campus to the Peruvian Amazon. Through this convening, we seek to catalyze creative and purposeful conversations, advance our shared knowledge, and strengthen relationships at the campus, community, regional, and global levels.
This event is and free and open to the public with registration.