Leadership Luncheon - Water Management & Green Infrastructure
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The YLC Leadership Luncheon returns! For our first one since 2019, YLC members can join Angela M. Chalk from Healthy Community Services on a lunchtime power walk. After she led a virtual webinar about green infrastructures in New Orleans, she'll now lead a tour of 8 different green infrastructure interventions, including rain barrels, permeable pavers, a solar-powered weather station, and more.
Agenda:
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30-45 Minute Walking tour in the 7th Ward
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Boxed lunches at the Climate Action Center
Tickets are $15 for YLC Members and $20 for Friends of YLC. This includes the cost of a boxed lunch.
Angela M. Chalk, Founder and Executive Director: Healthy Community Services
She is the Founder and Executive Director of Healthy Community Services, a non-profit organization, located in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, LA. She is a Past President for the Louisiana Public Health Association; former Secretary of the 5th District Police Community Advisory Board, (PCAB); a Foundation for Louisiana LEAD the Coast Cohort and Curriculum Advisory Committee and a retired Civil Service Employee with the Louisiana Department of Health. Also, she serves on the American Public Health Association’s Center for Climate, Health & Equity Steering Committee; an APHA Food & Nutrition as well as an Environmental Abstract Reviewer; a member of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana Advisory Committee. Ms. Chalk has testified before the 116th U.S. Congress Sub-Committee on Waters, Oceans and Wildlife. Recently, she was asked by the National Audubon Society to submit a Native Plant Academy instructional cohort curriculum to be used statewide across all of the LA Audubon Society’s platforms. Ms. Chalk received a Bachelor of Arts in mass communications; Minor: public health from Dillard University and holds a Master of Science Health Care Management from the University of New Orleans. Currently, Ms. Chalk is enrolled at Virginia University at Lynchburg pursuing a Doctor of Health Administration degree. She is recognized by the Water Environment Federation as a Green Infrastructure Practitioner and is a certified Produce Safety Alliance Grower.