[Hac-announce] Zoom Link for: HAC Earth Day Program: Diversifying the Environmental Movement | Monday, April 17, 2023 , 6:30PM to 8:30PM | Humanist Association of Connecticut

[Carol Siddall]

If you want to attend via zoom, we will be attempting to stream it on 
this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87610876926

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> Movement | Monday, April 17, 2023 , 6:30PM to 8:30PM | Humanist
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> HAC Earth Day Program: Diversifying the Environmental Movement
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> Monday, April 17, 2023
> 6:30PM to 8:30PM
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> Join us for a special Earth Day-themed program with guest speaker
> Doreen Abubakar, an award-winning Connecticut environmental leader,
> nature educator, and founder of the New Haven-based Community
> Placemaking Engagement Network (CPEN). Doreen has been a leader in
> diversifying the environmental movement for decades since getting
> involved with the organization Natural Guard in New Haven in the
> 1980s. After initiating the West River Water Festival and CPEN, most
> recently she co-founded a native plant nursery in Newhallville (called
> "Urbanscapes") that teaches horticultural skills and eco-preneurship
> to urban youth. In 2022, Doreen was the recipient of a Lifetime
> Achievement award from Audubon Connecticut.
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> She will give a presentation on her work as an "urban
> environmentalist" and the perspective she has gained on bringing youth
> and diversity into the movement to protect the planet.
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> The event begins at 6:30 with coffee and tea, and the presentation at
> 7pm.
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> _DOREEN ABUBAKAR BIO_
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> _Doreen is an award-winning environmental leader and educator working
> at the intersection of environmental justice, outdoor education,
> community placemaking and public health._
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> _For decades Doreen has been an environmental educator leading 4-H
> programs and teaching fishing for the Connecticut Department of Energy
> and Environmental Protection (DEEP). In 2011 she founded the West
> River Water Festival, a popular annual summertime event featuring
> canoe rides and watershed education._
> 
> _In 2012, Doreen created the Community Placemaking and Engagement
> Network (CPEN)​ as a catalyst for community relationship-building,
> leadership development and public health awareness in the low-income
> Newhallville neighborhood of New Haven. Focusing on family fitness and
> outdoors recreation as positive vectors for the social determinants of
> health, CPEN established the Newhallville Learning Corridor​ along
> the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, a linear park and designated
> section of the East Coast Greenway. The Learning Corridor features a
> resident-maintained public greenspace and Audubon-certified pollinator
> garden, access to the linear park, a space for festivals and community
> gatherings, and a bicycle storage facility where community members can
> access bicycles for use on the trail and in the community. The
> Learning Corridor also features annual programs such as the springtime
> Pedometer Challenge for walkers, weekly maintenance work-days in June
> and July, the Harvest Festival in October, holiday sing-along in
> December, and will soon host a farmers’ market to bring fresh fruits
> and vegetables into Newhallville, a "food desert" where access to
> quality produce is limited._
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> _In 2022, Doreen was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement award
> from Audubon Connecticut._
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> _Doreen is a mother of five, a grandmother, and a lifelong resident of
> New Haven._
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