About
The 2021 Lecture Series will feature six lecture webinars (January through June) with follow-up Community Conversations one week after each.
Registration required.
For more information send an e-mail here or call 585.271.0520
Sponsors
A special thank you to those that make this Series possible!
Presenting Sponsor:
Gold Sponsor:
Lecture Event Sponsors:
Department of Neighborhood & Business Development + Department of Environmental Services
Mike Governale, Renée Stetzer, and the Reconnect Rochester Board
Supporting Sponsors:
County of Monroe Dept. of Planning & Development
Lecture Series Friends:
In-kind Sponsors:
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CDCR is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Click here to listen to past lectures.
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NEXT UP in the 2021 Reshaping Rochester Series:
A virtual presentation on the public realm and its intersection with building a just community.
Mitchell Silver | New York, NY
Commissioner for the New York City Parks Department
Mitchell Silver is current commissioner for the New York City Parks Department. Appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, he assumed office May 2014. He was president of the American Planning Association between 2011 and 2013, the first African American to hold the title. His mission is to protect the public interest and maintain an outstanding quality of life for present and future generations by advocating strong leadership and sound planning practices.
Wed, April 28, 2021 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST | via Zoom
(pre-registration required)
Register Here
AIA Rochester - CES Sponsor
1.0 LU Credit Available
AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits for this activity [or many activities at this event]. When CM credits are available, they are noted at the end of an activity description. More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at www.planning.org/cm.
AICP members must be in attendance for the duration of the event in order to receive CM Credit.
Historically, State Ed has approved AIA credits for Registered Landscape Architects as long as the topic is relevant to landscape architecture.
Mr. Silver's Community Coversation will be held on Wed., May 5th. Register Here
Mark your calendar for our other speakers! All webinars occur from 12:00pm to 1:30pm on Zoom and require pre-registration.
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Past Lectures:
Join us for a virtual presentation on transportation/mobility and the intersection with building a just community.
Nidhi Gulati, March 24 | New York, NY
Senior Director of Programs & Projects at Project for Public Spaces
After a brief look at the ways in which automobility has induced segregation and created hardened boundaries for communities of color, Nidhi Gulati will outline a variety of initiatives in transportation and mobility that are providing equitable access, recognizing differing needs by neighborhood and community.
Nidhi Gulati is one of Project for Public Spaces' Senior Directors of Programs & Projects, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Nidhi is a trained architect and urban researcher who first joined Project for Public Spaces in 2013 as a Transportation Associate. In that role, she worked on more than 20 projects across the US and abroad, and delivered her first keynote speech at the Second International Forum on Public Spaces in Bogota, Columbia in 2014. She now manages the diverse transportation portfolio at Project for Public Spaces, helping to connect people
and places by creating community resources, contributing to the blog, and participating in speaking engagements. Ingrained in all her work is a commitment to better serve the most vulnerable populations in our cities and towns, including women and children.
Prior to rejoining the organization, Nidhi was the Emerald Network Program Manager at LivableStreets Alliance, where she managed all aspects of the initiative to connect over 17 jurisdictions in Metro Boston with a 200-mile network of greenways. She is also a guest writer for the global publication “Child in the City,” curating a series called "City Design and Stewardship: How to Design for Engaged Children and Citizens of Tomorrow."
Nidhi received her Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Malaviya National Institute of Technology in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Her thesis tackled the simplification of circulation patterns in international airports. She graduated from Texas A&M University in 2012 with a Master’s Degree in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences with a focus on place studies and community development. She is a born and raised Indian with more than usual appreciation for trains, a preference for walking as a mode of urban transportation, and a drive to inform the ongoing urban explosion in developing economies like her motherland through her work.
Wed, March 24, 2021 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST | via Zoom
Event Sponsor:
Mike Governale, Renée Stetzer, and the Reconnect Rochester Board
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Sara Bronin | Hartford, CT
Architect, Attorney, and Founder of DesegregateCT
Sara Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, and policymaker specializing in property, land use, historic preservation, and climate change. She advises the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Sustainable Development Code, serves on the board of Latinos in Heritage Conservation, and leads Desegregate Connecticut.
Previously, she chaired Preservation Connecticut and led the nationally-recognized efforts of the City of Hartford to draft and adopt a climate action plan, city plan, and zoning code overhaul. Bronin holds an endowed chair at UConn Law School and has served as a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture, the Sorbonne in Paris, and universities in Switzerland and Korea. She consults regularly for public and private entities, including helping to manage a $186 million, LEED-ND Platinum development project and leading a team to quiet title, with conservation restrictions, to the second-largest historic town green in New England. She has been interviewed by the N.Y. Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, CNN, and other major news outlets. Bronin was educated at Yale Law School (Truman Scholar), Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and the University of Texas. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Key to the City. You can find her on Twitter at @sarabronin.
Wed, February 24, 2021 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST | via Zoom
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**2021 Lecture Series kickoff postponed**
We regret to announce that the Reshaping Rochester kickoff event with De Nichols planned for 1/27 has been cancelled. Those who made a donation with their registration for this event will be contacted individually.
We hope to kick off the series in early February with another dynamic and knowledgeable speaker, and will share more information as it becomes available. Please reach out to admin@CDCRochester.org with any questions.
We thank you for bearing with us and look forward to seeing you at one of our many remaining events in 2021.