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Syllabus

2022 Dates and Speakers 

September 6 - Introductory Workshop - Sets the stage for our discussions and helps us frame our approach. “Engage-Challenge-Question”
Robert A. (Bob) Thomas, Ph.D.
, Professor & Director, Center for Environmental Communication, Loyola Endowed Chair in Environmental Communication, Loyola University New Orleans

September 13 – A.  Diversity game:  Whole Brain Theory.  B.  Systemic environmental change: how do we stimulate it and how do our personal actions affect the path forward?  At all levels:  corporate, government, regional, personal?  (include brainstorming categories:  plastics in general, shopping, at work, etc).  We will also have an open discussion about your opinions on the media and how it drives solutions or conflict.
Robert A. (Bob) Thomas, Ph.D.,
Professor & Director, Center for Environmental Communication, Loyola Endowed Chair in Environmental Communication, Loyola University New Orleans

Sept  20 – The future of coastal Louisiana and the conflicts associated with major river diversions below New Orleans.  
David Muth, retired wetland ecologist
Mark Schexnayder, Batture Engineers (your classmate)
Bob Thomas

September 27 - Paths forward for resolving climate change - legal perspectives and a call for wise policy.
Rob Verchick
, J.D., Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law, Loyola University New Orleans

October 4 - Global Climate Change, Ozone Management, Global Challenges, Global Solutions & The Process of Science Behind the Scenes
Paul W. Barnes, Ph.D.,
Professor of Biological Sciences & Rev. John H. Mullahy, S.J., Endowed Chair in Environmental Science, Loyola University New Orleans

Robert A. (Bob) Thomas, Ph.D.,
Professor & Director, Center for Environmental Communication, Loyola Endowed Chair in Environmental Communication, Loyola University New Orleans

October 11 - Environmental justice - how it operates and affects people today - what might we expect in the near future?
Jocyntia Banner, M.S. and Joyneia Banner, Ph.D,
Co-Directors, The Descendants Project

Oct 18 - Reporting on the Louisiana Environment
Mark Schleifstein,
IEC Fellow 2011, Environment Reporter, nola.com/The Times-Picayune

Halle Parker,
 IEC Fellow 2020, Environment Reporter, nola.com/The Times-Picayune

October 25Louisiana Tumor Registry Cancer Data: Strengths and Limitations.
Suzanne C. Straif-Bourgeois, Ph.D., MPH,
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, L.S.U. School of Public Health & Tumor Registry

Andrew Jacoby, Esq.,
IEC Fellow 2018; Law Offices of Andrew Jacoby LLC

November 1 – Trouble the Water:  The Importance of Storytelling in Water Law Policy
Mark Davis,
IEC Fellow 1999, Research Professor & Director, Tulane Institute of Water Resources Law & Policy and Policy Director, Tulane Center for Environmental Law

Elisa Speranza,
 MPA, President, Seventh Ward Strategies, LLC

November 8 - No IEC - major election day.

November 15 – NOTE:  5:45 PM TO 9:00 PM INCLUDING PIZZA DINNER!!!
CLOSING GATHERING - DISCUSSION OF WHAT TRANSPIRED & THE PATH FORWARD. 
CLOSING DISCUSSION - Working topic: energy futures - what is possible and what is probable.

Michael Hecht,
GNO, Inc.

Robert A. (Bob) Thomas, Ph.D.,
Professor & Director, Center for Environmental Communication, Loyola University New Orleans & the Ascending IEC Fellows 2022