March Symposium
Symposium Series (March 15-17, 2009)
"Water & Civilization: The Challenge of the Future"
Sunday March 15, 2009
4:00-5:30 pm Lynn Center for Fine Arts: Becky Norton Dunlop
8:00-9:30 pm Lynn Center for Fine Arts: Claudia Campero Arena
9:30 pm Lynn Center for Fine Arts Lobby: Refreshments
Monday March 16, 2009
1:30 pm Campus Center Board Room: Round Table Discussion
4:00-5:30 pm Lynn Center for Fine Arts: Cheryl Day
8:00-9:30 pm Lynn Center for Fine Arts: Marq de Villiers
9:30 pm Lynn Center for Fine Arts Lobby: Refreshments
Tuesday March 17, 2009
10:00 am Campus Center Board Room: Round Table Discussion
12:00 pm Symposium ends.
Claudia Campero Arena studied geography at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She holds a Masters in Urban Development Planning from the University College London, where her dissertation focused on water governance, conflict and social justice in Mexico City. She is a founding member of COMDA (Coalition of Mexican Organizations for the Right to Water) that was part of the movement of the Rallies in the Defense of Water in Mexico City, 2006. She has been involved with numerous organizations and campaigns to secure the right to water, including Blue October – an international month of action to defend water. Claudia has coordinated several international water conferences, celebrated in Mexico and abroad, to discuss diverse ideas to manage water in sustainable and democratic ways.
Cheryl Day is a fourth generation agriculture producer from Central Illinois. She along with her husband and two children raise corn, soybeans, and registered Angus Cattle in Cerro Gordo, IL. Day earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Ag-Business from Illinois State University in 1995.
Even at early age agriculture has been a primary focus for Day. She specializes in agriculture water issues and orchestras campaigns for various organizations. In addition to her agriculture enterprise, Day freelances as an agricultural communicator. In 2003, she joined the Illinois and American Agri Women. Day is the current President of Illinois Agri Women and Water Resource Chair of the American Agri Women.
Marq de Villiers is a veteran journalist, magazine editor and writer, who has worked as a foreign correspondent in Moscow, South Africa and other places. He has travelled extensively, especially in Africa, and has written twelve books on travel, history and natural history, some of them co-authored with Sheila Hirtle. He has also "ghosted" several others for subjects as varied as a convicted (but later freed) murderer and a deputy Secretary General of the United Nations.
de Villiers won a Governor General's Award in 1999 for "Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource," and the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non Fiction for "A Dune Adrift," a book on Sable Island, written with Hirtle. His most recent book is a re-telling of the Bluenose story called, "Witch in the Wind," (Thomas Allen and Co., 2007). Other works include "Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold," (McClelland and Stewart, 2007) and "A Short History of Natural Calamities," which will be published by Penguin later this year.
Becky Norton Dunlop is a senior fellow of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution and oversees its programs on environmental regulation. She is the author of Clearing the Air, a widely praised account of her service as Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia published by AdTI. From 1994 - 1998 she served in the Cabinet of Virginia Governor George Allen as the Secretary of Natural Resources. Dunlop is a Board member for several organizations including: the National Wilderness Institute, Defenders of Property Rights, The Family Foundation and the Virginia Institute for Public Policy. She also serves on the Board of Century Communications, Inc., a management consulting and venture development firm that specializes in strategic planning, organizational management, government relations, and joint venture development. In the 1980's, Mrs. Dunlop was a senior official in the Administration of President Ronald Reagan, including service in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel and also Director of the President's Cabinet office. She served in the Department of Justice in 1985 and 1986 as Senior Special Assistant to the Attorney General. During 1987-1989, she was Deputy Under Secretary of the Department of Interior and Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks.
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