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Special Lecture: Mayor Elicker and Director Latha Swamy
Yale School of the Environment, Kroon Hall, 3rd Floor, Burke Auditorium
195 Prospect Street, New Haven 06511, United States
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Mayor Elicker is currently in his second term as the 51st elected Mayor of New Haven. He received a BA from Middlebury College followed by an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment. Mayor Elicker previously served as a foreign service officer for economic and environmental policies in the U.S. Department of State and as the executive director of a local environmental nonprofit that focused on community stewardship. Mayor Elicker's primary goal is to ensure each resident of the city of New Haven has the opportunity to thrive, and he is dedicated to creating a healthy and accessible environment for his constituents. As Mayor, he reinvigorated New Haven's first Office of Climate and Sustainability that is dedicated to developing and implementing equitable sustainability initiatives while simultaneously addressing issues like affordable housing and employment opportunities. Mayor Elicker's experiences have given him unique insight into the realities of implementing environmental initiatives at the ground level, and what it means to do so in an equitable manner.
Latha Swamy is the City of New Haven's Director of Food System Policy. She holds a B.S. in Cellular Biology from the University of Georgia, pursued an MD and PhD in systems neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and received a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment. In her current role, she seeks to manifest community visions of a sustainable and just food system by dismantling municipal and systemic barriers and authentically collaborating with community members and local, state and federal actors. Latha has previously worked as Senior Advisor to the Chair of the Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health where she focused on local-to-global policies at the nexus between environmental degradation and human health. She has also worked in Haiti, India, Nepal and Indonesia to identify and evaluate solutions for environmental issues relating to the relationship between health and agricultural systems. The City of New Haven Food System Policy Division's current portfolio includes initiatives that focus on, among others, Urban Agricultural Growth & Development, Equitable Food-Oriented Development, Food Systems Mapping and Data, and Regional, National, and International Engagement.
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Yale School of the Environment, Kroon Hall, 3rd Floor, Burke Auditorium
195 Prospect Street, New Haven 06511, United States
Speakers
Latha Swamy
Director of Food Policy
City of New Haven
Latha Swamy is the City of New Haven’s Director of Food System Policy. She holds a B.S. in Cellular Biology from the University of Georgia, pursued an MD and PhD in systems neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and received a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment. In her current role, she seeks to manifest community visions of a sustainable and just food system by dismantling municipal and systemic barriers and authentically collaborating with community members and local, state and federal actors. Latha has previously worked as Senior Advisor to the Chair of the Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health where she focused on local-to-global policies at the nexus between environmental degradation and human health. She has also worked in Haiti, India, Nepal and Indonesia to identify and evaluate solutions for environmental issues relating to the relationship between health and agricultural systems. The City of New Haven Food System Policy Division's current portfolio includes initiatives that focus on, among others, Urban Agricultural Growth & Development, Equitable Food-Oriented Development, Food Systems Mapping and Data, and Regional, National, and International Engagement.
Justin Elicker
Mayor
City of New Haven
Mayor Elicker is currently in his second term as the 51st elected Mayor of New Haven. He received a BA from Middlebury College followed by an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment. Mayor Elicker previously served as a foreign service officer for economic and environmental policies in the U.S. Department of State and as the executive director of a local environmental nonprofit that focused on community stewardship. Mayor Elicker’s primary goal is to ensure each resident of the city of New Haven has the opportunity to thrive, and he is dedicated to creating a healthy and accessible environment for his constituents. As Mayor, he reinvigorated New Haven’s first Office of Climate and Sustainability that is dedicated to developing and implementing equitable sustainability initiatives while simultaneously addressing issues like affordable housing and employment opportunities. Mayor Elicker’s experiences have given him unique insight into the realities of implementing environmental initiatives at the ground level, and what it means to do so in an equitable manner.
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