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For Immediate Release
March 9, 2009
Contact: Sarah Szurpicki, [email protected], 202-271-3016
This Week in Milwaukee: GLUE Conference Brings Together Urban
Solutions for the Great
Lakes Mega-Region
March 9. This Thursday through Saturday, 70 post-boomer leaders
from Milwaukee and a dozen
other cities around the Upper Midwest will gather as Milwaukee
hosts the Great Lakes Urban
Exchange's second annual conference. These young leaders will
hear from urban policy experts,
share their experiences and ideas, and strategize for equitable,
sustainable, and stronger urban
cores around our Great Lakes mega-region. GLUE and its
conference participants are devoted to
the revitalization of our post-industrial cities, and know that
our success in the future is dependent
on our ability to collaborate towards a mega-regional identity
now.
The conference will be primarily held at Milwaukee's
InterContinental Hotel, with site visits to
Milwaukee success stories Growing Power, the Great Lakes WATER
Institute, MenomoneeValley, and art galleries in the Fifth and
Third Wards. Speakers include:
Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines and CEOs for
Cities CEO Carol
Coletta (3/12);
Dick Longworth, Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global
Affairs, Tom Wolfe,
Executive Director of the Northeast-Midwest Institute; Kate
Rube, Policy Director for
Smart Growth America; Kristin Purdy, Regional Organizer for the
Midwest for
Transportation for America; and Dave Wetzel, President of the
U.K.'s Labour Land
Campaign (3/13); and
Lynn Todman, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Adler Institute on
Social Exclusion, andJohn Austin, Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the
Brookings Institution and Executive
Director of the New Economy Initiative (3/14).
In addition to the impressive roster of speakers, the conference
includes workshops on movement
building, community journalism, and issues advocacy, and
opportunities for participants to lead
the conversation. The full agenda, including speaking times for
the above presenters, is available
online at glueconference2009.wordpress.com/agenda/
Generous support for the conference has been provided by the
McCormick Tribune Foundation
and the Surdna Foundation.
GLUE is a coalition of "Rust Belt" activists, policy wonks,
organizers, and professionals who aredevoted to Great Lakes cities.
GLUE is building a mega-regional movement and mobilizing a
constituency of urban dwellers for a stronger, healthier future.
GLUE was founded in 2007 and
was incubated in its first year by the Brookings Institutions
Great Lakes Economic Initiative.
GLUE is now a project of the Tides Center. More about GLUE can
be found at
www.gluespace.org.
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