SLC, Twin Lights Rooms
Parking Lot 7 to the Student Life Center
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Speaker: Ben Haygood, Director of the Johnson Center for Learning & Policy

Revitalizing communities by working alongside local residents to plan their neighborhood’s future and to develop energy infrastructure, affordable and healthy homes, parks, gardens, shared facilities, and more. The use of community-based planning to steer redevelopment of energy infrastructure and healthy homes, former factories, open spaces, and safe streets. (Mr. Haygood’s lecture date may be switched with one of the other lectures, due to his legislative schedule. An update will be posted, if needed.)

Ben Haygood is the Director of Policy & Partnerships at Isles, a community development organization out of Trenton that fosters healthy sustainable communities, where he works with government, coalitions, and communities to create and implement policies protecting children from lead poisoning, and to create healthier homes and communities through cleaner energy and equity-driven policy. Previously, Ben was at the Housing & Community Development Network of NJ, on Sandy and Katrina Disaster Recovery, and was a firefighter in Texas and a Cavalry Scout in Bosnia and Haiti.

*Free and open to the public

*Light refreshments are served