The 2008 Regional Livability Summit

The energy to create a movement for equality and inclusive communities was palpable at the 2008 Regional Livability Summit. Throughout the event, insightful conversations occurred around how to build a movement for change that would make opportunity and full inclusion core components of our region’s approach to sustainable development.

The Coalition for a Livable Future is pleased to make materials from the 2008 Summit available online:

- 2008 Summit Proceedings Report

- 2008 Summit Participant List

- Structural Transformation & Race presentation
   ~ Maya Wiley

- Action Agenda Framing Presentation
   ~ Jill Fuglister

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Speakers at the 2008 Summit included:

Keynote by Maya Wiley - Founder and Director of the Center for Social Inclusion

Pam Phan - City of Portland, Vision into Action

Nichole Maher - Native American Youth and Family Center

Nathan Teske - El Programa Hispano-Catholic Charities

Alfonso Lopez-Vasquez - Pacific University and Washington County Human Rights Commission

Ed Washington - Portland State University Community Liason for Diversity Initiatives

Storytelling Performance by Baba Wagué Diakité

Lawrence Wallack - Dean of Portland State University College of Urban and Public Affairs

Sam Brooks - Portland Business Alliance Board Chair, President and Chairman of Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs, and founder of S. Brooks and Associates

Barbara Dudley - Adjunct Professor, PSU in Hatfield School of Government

Michael Jordan - Metro Chief Operating Officer

Chuck Sheketoff - Executive Director, Oregon Center for Public Policy

Jeri Williams - Environmental Justice Activist

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