After the Fire USA 2022 Wildfire Leadership Summit
PANEL: Community Organizing for Recovery and Resilience
MODERATOR: Pamela Van Halsema, Director of Community & Digital Programs, After the Fire USA
PANELISTS:
Jeff Okrepkie, Founder, Coffey Strong
Nancy Presser, Disaster Case Manager Coordinator, Plumas Rural Services
Tucker Teutsch III, Executive Director, Firebrand Resiliency Collective
Anne Whatley, Facilitator, Ventura County Long Term Disaster Recovery Group
Lara Wheeler, Founder, Rebuilding Greenville Resource Center and Director, Indian Valley Innovation Hub
Contact the Panel:
https://coffeystrong.com
https://afterthefireusa.org
firebrandcollective.org
https://plumasruralservices.org/RGRC
https://www.vcdisasterrecoverygroup.org
plumasruralservices.org
On Day 1, September 20, 2022, the theme of the day was Recover. The opening panel discussion focused around how communities organized locally to impact the recovery in positive ways. Included in the discussione were members of the Plumas Co, CA, Dixie Fire, California’s Tubbs Fire and Woolsey Fire, and Oregon’s Santiam Canyon Fire and Almeda Fires.
Topics covered include:
What motivates you to help organize in the recovery?
What stakeholders are the ones who you are helping?
What are the challenges that you encounter?
What tools do you find most helpful?
What are the obstacles are the tough ones for the people you help?
What would make this easier for someone starting out organizing after new wildfire?
After The Fire USA hosted a three-day conference for networking, knowledge sharing, and capacity building to address the problem of Megafires in the US. The Wildfire Leadership Summit took place at the Hanna Center in Sonoma, California and was built from a coalition of wildfire communities, wildfire recovery and resilience organizations, and local community groups, regional, national partners, funders, and leaders.
Thank you to the major sponsor of the Leadership Summit, Fannie Mae and their Disaster Response Network.
Thanks to our Summit host Hanna Center and to The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) for their generous contribution, for the travel support provided by Alaska Airlines and thanks to Wednesday’s evening film event sponsor Obsidian Wine Company. '
For more information about After The Fire USA, or the Wildfire Leadership Summit, please visit AfterTheFireUSA.org or email @info@AfterTheFireUSA.org.
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