{"id":24982,"date":"2021-11-24T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?page_id=24982"},"modified":"2022-04-06T12:16:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:16:37","slug":"keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2022-maine-sustainability-water-conference\/keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CMw6kvK9RHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A recording of the keynote address is available on YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/resource\/2022-mswc-keynote-slides\/\">PowerPoint slides from the keynote address are available<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25257 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/12\/East_Judith-head-shot.jpg\" alt=\"Judith East\" width=\"134\" height=\"178\" \/>Keynote Speaker: Judith C. East<\/h3>\n<p>Director, Bureau of Resource Information and Land Use Planning<br \/>\nMaine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry<\/p>\n<h3><em>Getting from us\/them polarization to partnership with, sometimes, strange bedfellows<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The current polarization in our politics and our culture is clear in every poll and newscast we hear and in many a local school board meeting we attend. While especially acute today, the labels we use to divide \u201cus\u201d from \u201cthem\u201d have existed and persisted throughout the history of this vast continent on which we live. Yet many communities spring up, thrive, recover from disaster, and find common ground. How have we, and how do we, move beyond xenophobia of the \u201cothers\u201d among \u201cus\u201d and find a common place that we can all call home? This talk will explore the mindset, some processes, and some stories to reinforce a shift from real or perceived exploitation and superiority to reciprocity and mutual benefit, that is, from win\/lose to win\/win. While always a work in progress, East will describe her professional experience with strategies that help to find common ground among \u201cstrange bedfellows\u201d in our civic life. By no means will this talk address all past and current pain rooted in the synonyms of xenophobia (racism, prejudice, chauvinism), yet it will ask of the audience to understand and appreciate the need to build bridges if we are to thrive in community. Collectively, these bridges may be more common than the media noise suggests with its persistent focus on conflict rather than on partnership.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judith C. East<\/strong> is Director of the Bureau of Resource Information and Land Use Planning at the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. She has 34 years of professional experience at the local, regional and state levels in Maine, New York and Vermont. Over her career she has led a regional land trust and a regional planning agency in deeply rural areas of New England helping small communities with infrastructure, emergency management, working waterfront, public access, conservation, climate resilience, and land use planning. Judy serves on the Maine Climate Council and as Co-Chair of the working group on Community Resilience Planning, Emergency Management and Public Health. With a B.Sc. in biology and economics and a M.Sc. in Planning, she has ability and interest in working with rural communities as they balance land and resource conservation with economic development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recording of the keynote address is available on YouTube PowerPoint slides from the keynote address are available Keynote Speaker: Judith C. East Director, Bureau of Resource Information and Land Use Planning Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Getting from us\/them polarization to partnership with, sometimes, strange bedfellows The current polarization in our politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"parent":24650,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24982","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24982"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26177,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24982\/revisions\/26177"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}