CivicLabTO Discussion Series: Economic Resiliency: Culture, Innovation, Inclusion
Thu, Oct 07
|Microsoft Teams
Please join us for a conversation on how academic-municipal collaborations can generate targeted, timely and useful research to inform public policy and address the climate crisis.
Time & Location
Oct 07, 2021, 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. EDT
Microsoft Teams
Guests
About the event
This virtual panel is a precursor to the CivicLabTO Academic Summit: Collaborating on Renewal and Resilience Nov. 23 & 24, 2021. Focusing on the human side of Economic resilience, panelist will assess opportunities and highlight key concerns around who is included as governments and organizations—the City and Higher Education Institutions among them—begin to build back better. The three featured panelists have distinguished careers working closely with communities and developing crucial insights on the quotidian impacts of cultural policy and innovation; collectively, they will discuss questions of Economic Resilience from the perspective of ongoing work and emerging concerns.
Panelists
Mike DeGagné, President and CEO, Indspire
An Ojibway from the Animakee Wa Zhing 37 First Nation, Dr. Mike DeGagné is the President and CEO of Indspire. Appointed Nipissing University President and Vice Chancellor in 2013, Dr. DeGagné was one of the first Indigenous presidents of a Canadian public university. He later served…