Leveraging Strengths Conference
September 2012 
As an overview of this event about partnerships between Pennsylvania higher education institutions and their communities, the conference packet remains posted online. For followup with the presenters, emails have been posted below. 

PANEL COMPOSITIONS:

WATER (9:30-10:20): 

• Allegheny (Creek Connections - Jim Palmer- jpalmer@allegheny.edu)
• Dickinson (ALLARM, Marcellus Shale water monitoring - Julie Vastine- vastine@dickinson.edu)
• West Chester (Brandywine - TBD)
• PSU (Lower Susquehanna coalition of stakeholders - Kristen Saacke Blunk-kristensb@psu.edu and Matt Royer- mzr154@psu.edu)

FOOD (10:25-11:45):

• Messiah (Community Garden-communitygarden@messiah.edu; Craig Dalen- cdalen@messiah.edu; Dan Ott- do1167@messiah.edu;  Ian Gallo)
• Wilson (Fulton Farm - Christine Mayer-cmayer@wilson.edu)
• Bucknell (Community Garden - Stacey Sommerfield-sns004@bucknell.edu)
• Dickinson (Dickinson Farm - Jennifer Halpin- halpinj@dickinson.edu)
• F&M (refugee gardening - Olivia Gell-olivia.gell@fandm.edu; Liza Munk- elizabeth.munk@fandm.edu; Grace Jeung)
• Gettysburg (Painted Turtle Farm - Jasmine Colahan- colaja01@gettysburg.edu)

URBAN ISSUES (1:00-2:20):

• University of PA (UC Green - Susan Pringle- smpringle@ucgreen.org)
• F&M (Urban Wildlife Research Program - Ari Whiteman- ari.whiteman@fandm.edu)
• Dickinson (Stormwater monitoring - Julie Vastine- vastine@dickinson.edu)
• West Chester (Joint Sustainability Task Group - Paul Morgan- pmorgan@wcupa.edu)
• Lafyette (Landis Community Center - Bonnie Winfield- winfielb@lafayette.edu)
• Penn State (cross municipal Shade Tree Commission (1st in the state) with continued emphasis on Green Infrastructure - Deno De Ciantis- dwd5@psu.edu)
  
  

COMMUNITY PARTNERS (2:25-3:15):

• USGBC (William Sutton- wsutton@wohlsen.com)
• Lancaster County Parks and Recreation (Lisa Sanchez-SanchezL@co.lancaster.pa.us)