BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3b69c1353c3196264e1467f4ad7fe058207 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:Roundtable: AAPIs on the river and their sense of place DESCRIPTION:
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Moses Chun works with the Nation
al Park Service in the Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program
as an Outdoor Recreation Planner. Currently, Moses coordinates the Emerging
Leaders Program in the Conservation and Outdoor Recreation Division. He ha
s worked with the NPS since 2014 in various capacities in parks, regional o
ffices, and now with the Washington Support Office. He is also a leadership
team member of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Employee Res
earch Group in the NPS, which was formed in 2020 to provide employee suppor
t and resources to AAPI staff. | |
Robert Goo works as an environmental protect
ion specialist for the US EPA in the Office of Water. Robert has worked on
watershed management and water quality issues since 1988. His focus is on nonpoint source pollution and his specialties are
stormwater/urban runoff and green infrastructure. He works with federal, s
tate, local water resources managers, academia and nongovernmental organiza
tions to promote polices, scientific research, voluntary codes and standard
s and outreach and engagement to protect and restore waters of the U.S. He provides stormwater management advice to the Frie
nds of Sligo Creek and served on a diversity, inclusion, equity and environ
mental justice workgroup that helped develop a plan to help the Potomac Riv
erkeepers Network engage and better serve disadvantaged or underserved Poto
mac River communities. He also has volunteered with Team River Runner and w
ith a local NAACP chapter in Virginia to introduce inner city youth to padd
leboarding. Robert is an avid waterman and kayaks, canoes, standup paddlebo
ards, surfs, kiteboards squirt boats and is learning to wing foil. | |
Keiko Mertz was born and rai sed in California, just a stone’s throw from the great Sacramento River. Gr owing up, she was fascinated with the natural world, ultimately leading her to pursue degrees in Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology (B.S.) and E nvironmental Policy (M.S.), both from the University of California, Davis. She now leverages this interdisciplinary knowledge in her work as Policy Di rector of Friends of the River, where she advocates for the rivers you love . | |
Theresa Lorejo-Simsiman is the California Stewardship Dire ctor for American Whitewater. Since she first started whitewater kayaking i n 1999 she has made it a point to get involved at the community level to ad vocate for river sheds and lands in in her back-yard. She cut her teeth in the world of hydropower by actively informing and encouraging advocacy from local paddling groups for the relicensing of the FERC Upper American River Project (UARP) owned and operated by the Sacramento Municipal Utility Dist rict (SMUD). In 2008 she wrote and secured the first matching grant f rom AQMD totaling over 76K for the shuttle program. In time, Dave St eindorf recruited Theresa as a volunteer for American Whitewater asking her to be the Ecological Resource Committee representative for the FERC Mokelu mne River Project owned by Pacific Gas & Electric. She later agreed to represent American Whitewater during the relicensing process for the Merced River Hydroelectric Project and help with efforts to stop the roll back of National Wild & Scenic protection on the Merced River. Having gained p ractical knowledge working with utilities, federal, state & local agenc ies as well as local partner organizations, Theresa was eventually brought on to the American Whitewater staff as the California Stewardship Assistant in 2013. In this position she protected recreational flows on the Mokelumn e River during the drought, advocated for State Wild and Scenic River statu s for the Mokelumne, helped remove an illegal fence blocking access to the Cosumnes River, and helped implement the first license required recreationa l flow releases on the South Fork American River below Slab Creek Dam and o n South Silver Creek below Ice House Reservoir. |