This is going to be so awesome!

Register:

https://big-sugar-summit.eventbrite.com

for more info:

cris.costello@sierraclub.org   ; 941-914-0421

AG E N DA

Registration sign-in: 9:00 am to 9:30 am

Opening Remarks

 Frank Jackalone, Senior Organizing Manager, Sierra Club

 Mary Barley, President, The Everglades Trust

The History of Big Sugar in the Everglades Agricultural Area

 Dr. Gail Hollander, Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University, Author, Raising Cane in the Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida

Big Sugar’s Impact on the Everglades/Send it South

Stephen E. Davis III, Ph.D., Wetland Ecologist, The Everglades Foundation

Richard Grosso, Director, Environmental and Land Use

Law Clinic, Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern Law Clinic, Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern

University

Keynote Address: Chairman Colley Billie, Miccosukee Tribe

Lunch

Is Big Sugar Burning Your Lungs?

Julia Hathaway, Organizing Representative, Sierra Club

Dr. Henrique César Santejo Silveira, Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP,Brazil

Jim Stormer, Retired Environmental Administrator, Palm Beach County Health Department

 Leticia Phillips, UNICA – Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association

 David Guest, Managing Attorney, Earthjustice, Florida Office

AFTERNOON BREAK

Sugar is Toxic

 Wolfram Alderson, Founding Executive Director, Institute for Responsible Nutrition

Big Sugar’s Political Influence

 Daren Bakst, Research Fellow in Agricultural Policy, Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity, The Heritage Foundation

Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics

Mark Pafford, Florida House Representative and Chief Executive Officer of the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation.

Manley Fuller , President, Florida Wildlife Federation

OPEN MIKE/CLOSING REMARKS

Social Hour

Presented by

the Sierra Club

June 20, 2015

Program:

9 am to 5 pm

Social Hour:

5 pm to 6 pm

Embassy Suites

West palm Beach

1601 Belvedere Road

West Palm Beach, FL