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Elizabeth Valdez <br />7:00 p.m May 27, 2004 Hall C North <br />The Culture of Conversation <br />Elizabeth Valdez, Organizer with The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), has trained hundreds <br />of community leaders over the past 18 years in the arts of civic engagement and the skills <br />necessary for participating in our rapidly changing economy. Ms. Valdez is the lead organizer of <br />Valley Interfaith, an organization of forty -three institutions in the bi- cultural / bilingual region of <br />the Rio Grande Valley. She believes that mediating institutions can bring together a rich <br />diversity of poor and middle class, liberal and conservative to cross ethnic and racial lines and <br />work together around the decisions that affect their families. <br />Majora Carter <br />7:00 p.m June 1, 2004 Hall C North <br />Environmental Justice Builds Community <br />A long history of racial and class discrimination in land use decisions and housing has located <br />the worst polluting waste - transfer stations, truck- dependent warehouses, and highways in some <br />cities. Inspired by the potential of creating environmentally safe spaces in the South Bronx, New <br />York, Majora Carter discusses community building that is informed by the needs of the <br />community and values of environmental justice. Ms. Carter is the founder and executive director <br />of Sustainable South Bronx, a community based organization created in 2001 to implement <br />sustainable development projects for the South Bronx. <br />