In addition to open plenaries and exhibitions/showcases, the conference will host 3 distinct track session themes. In each track, presenters and attendees will reflect and identify pathways of hope, direction, and action in environmental justice. Collectively, presenters and attendees will cumulate the work of all three sessions to generate a draft roadmap outlining key elements, obstacles, and opportunities for the next 3-5 years of work in the field.
Participants will spend the bulk of the conference in track sessions, or different areas of focus. There are three different tracks, listed below. Each track will meet three separate times throughout the two days, each time featuring new perspectives. Participants are welcome to identify a track of interest and stick with it throughout the conference, or jump around different tracks as they wish.
During track sessions, participants will listen to speakers for a third of the time, but will spend most of the session in small groups discussing the topics and reflecting on pathways for hope, direction, and action. By doing so, participants will get to know one another and co-create solutions for the very problems they face. Collaboration builds resiliency, and we hope that these highly interactive track sessions will become a place of joy in that of themselves. After the conference ends, reflections from the track sessions and the conference at large will be synthesized into a communications resource provided to all attendees to carry the conference insights moving forward.
