Building One America: A National Summit on Regional Opportunity

Thursday, September 17-Friday September 18, 2009Lincoln Park United Methodist Church1301 North Carolina Avenue, NEWashington, DCThursday, September 1710:00 am – 12:00 noonRegistration 13

Street Entry Lobby11:00 am – 12:00 pmLunch available (no formal program) Lower Fellowship Hall11:00 amBook fair opensUpper Fellowship HallFunders Briefing Library Classroom12:00 –1:55 pm

Rev. Michael Harrison

(Summit Chair) Sanctuary

Rev. David Eckert

, Opening Prayer and Reflection

Rev. Diane Dixon-Proctor

(Lincoln Park UMC)

Bruce Katz

(Advisor to HUD Secretary Donovan &Director of Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution)1ST PLENARY: THE REGIONAL FRAMEWORK Sanctuary

Prof. john powell

(MARC/Kirwan Institute)

The Honorable Earl Blumenauer,

Member of Congress, D-Oregon)2

PLENARY: METRO REGIONS AND OLDER SUBURBS: FULCRUM OF POLITICAL ALLIANCES Sanctuary

Prof. Myron Orfield

(MARC/Institute on Race & Poverty)

Danielle Arigoni (

Senior Policy Analyst, Smart Growth, EPA)1:55 pm – 2:10 pmBreak 2:10 – 2:45 pm3

PLENARY: HOUSING, SCHOOLS &OLDER SUBURBS Sanctuary

David Rusk

(MARC/Innovative Housing Institute)

John Trasviña

(Assistant Secretary, HUD)

2:45 – 3:00 pmBreak 3:00 – 3:30 pm4

Plenary – addresses by Valerie Jarrett and Senator Robert Menendez andreactions from community panel

Rev. Lenton Buffalo

(Chair, New Jersey Regional Coalition)

Rev. Alan Traher

(Co-chair, BRIDGE)

Jacquie Puriefoy-Brinkley

(Member, Former Chair, Yeadon, PACity Council)

Valerie Jarrett

(Senior Advisor to President Obama)

3:30 pm – 4:10 pmPanel Reacts to Presentations of the Day

Dave Forrest

(City Manager, Norristown, Pa. )

Jane Young

(Mayor, Lansdowne, Pa.)

James Brady

(Member, Shaker Heights City Council)

James DeBord

(York Counts, York, Pa.)

Rev John Welch

(Dean of Students, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary,President of PIIN—Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network)

Rev. David Bigsby

(Transportation Equity Network, Gamaliel of MetroChicago, and Pastor of In the Upper Room Ministries)

Elizabeth Horton Sheff

(Hartford City Council, The Sheff Movement)

Aixa Aleman Diaz

(Office of NY Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez,head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus)

Phil Tegeler,

Director, Poverty and Race Research and ActionCouncil4:10 – 4:30 pmIntroduction of Senator Menendez by Rev. Buffalo

The Honorable Robert Menendez

(Member, U.S. Senate, D-NJ)4:30 – 6:45 pmShuttles available to and from Hyatt4:30 – 5:00 pmBook signing Upper Fellowship Hall5:00 - 6:45 pmDinner Upper and Lower Fellowship Hall5:00 – 6:00 pmDocumentary Film Sanctuary“The New Metropolis” by Andrea Torrice6:00 – 7:00 pmDocumentary Film Sanctuary“The New Metropolis” by Andrea Torrice7:00 pm – 8:15 pm5