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Rebuilding Haiti: Brainstorming at UMass Boston workshop
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More than a dozen urban planning and disaster relief specialists will lead brainstorming sessions at the University of Massachusetts-Boston campus on Friday on ways to rebuild sustainable communities in Haiti after the earthquake.
The day-long workshop opens at 9 a.m. at the Healey Library, is open to the public. You can register here. More details on the event are available here. And this draft agenda lists speakers and time slots.
The conference has been organized by Professor Adenrele Awotona, an architect and urban planner at UMass Boston who has global experience in Third World planning and disaster rcovery. Awotona is the founder and director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters It's hard to imagine an academic center more suited for focusing on rebuilding Haiti. Previously he was dean of the College of Public and Community Service at UMass Boston.
Several Haitians and Haitian-Americans are among the speakers, along with urban planning and development specialists who have worked in Haiti, including Professor Enrique Silva and Anuradha Mukherji of Boston University, who both traveled to Haiti soon after the earthquake.
Panelists in the afternoon sessions include Manolia Charlotin, co-founder of Haiti 2015, and Carline Desire of the Association of Haitian Women of Boston.
The day-long workshop opens at 9 a.m. at the Healey Library, is open to the public. You can register here. More details on the event are available here. And this draft agenda lists speakers and time slots.
The conference has been organized by Professor Adenrele Awotona, an architect and urban planner at UMass Boston who has global experience in Third World planning and disaster rcovery. Awotona is the founder and director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters It's hard to imagine an academic center more suited for focusing on rebuilding Haiti. Previously he was dean of the College of Public and Community Service at UMass Boston.
Several Haitians and Haitian-Americans are among the speakers, along with urban planning and development specialists who have worked in Haiti, including Professor Enrique Silva and Anuradha Mukherji of Boston University, who both traveled to Haiti soon after the earthquake.
Panelists in the afternoon sessions include Manolia Charlotin, co-founder of Haiti 2015, and Carline Desire of the Association of Haitian Women of Boston.
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Jim Smith came home to his native Boston in 2002 to become the Boston Globe's foreign editor after spending 22 years abroad. He was previously based in Buenos Aires and Mexico City for the LA Times, and in Johannesburg, Tokyo and The Hague for the AP. In 2007 he became the Globe's national political editor, coordinating presidential campaign coverage. He is a Yale graduate, and has an MBA. He is married to Maxine Hart and has two sons, Matthew and Daniel.
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