People Power in Economic Development

Guest Speaker:

Wesley Brooks, Director of Special Projects,

The Center for Working Families, Inc.

How can efforts to solve community problems lead to the creation of green jobs?

Wesley Brooks, Director of Special Projects at The Center for Working Families and Green and Healthy Homes Initiative Coordinator for the City of Atlanta, will share practices from a series of programs and projects that involve workforce training and sustainable development.  Information about how local residents have been trained in remediation of lead based paint, asbestos, and other residential safety hazards and how this training has resulted in new skills, green jobs, and housing rehabilitation will be discussed.

AGENDA

• 12 Noon: Meet the speaker/brown bag lunch
• 12:30-2:00 pm:  Program

LOCATION

Centergy Building at Technology Square

75 Fifth Street, NW, Atlanta, GA, 30808

Hodges Connections Room, Third Floor

More Information:

For more information, call Lynn Willingham at 404-894-0730 or e-mail lynn.willingham@innovate.gatech.edu    

The Innovations in Economic Development forum brings together faculty, other researchers, students, economic developers, and policymakers to discuss leading-edge ideas and practices in economic development and innovation policy.

Presented by: the Program in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (STIP), a joint initiative of Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute and the School of Public Policy

Co-sponsored by: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA)

For more information, visitstip.gatech.edu, click FORUM