Webinar | Quarterly Green Infrastructure Webinar Series: Community-Driven Workforce Solutions for Green Infrastructure
Join us for the 7th webinar in this 10-part series focused on the financial, managerial, and technical aspects of green infrastructure. Experienced practitioners, policy and funding experts, as well as academics, will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the implementation of green infrastructure. These informative sessions will be offered quarterly, from April 2024 to July 2026.
Series Host: Shannon Pepper, Water Utility Trainer and Specialist, Southwest Environmental Finance Center
October 16, 2025 | Session 7 | Community-Driven Workforce Solutions for Green Infrastructure
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Description: Green Infrastructure requires ongoing maintenance and skilled knowledge for its effective operation. To increase the implementation success of Green Infrastructure, a well-trained workforce with ties to the community is essential. This webinar will explore community-driven green infrastructure programs in New Orleans that support the professional growth of the communities they are based in. We plan to highlight case studies of green infrastructure workforce programs that owe their success to effective collaboration with the communities they serve.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the benefits of community-driven approaches to workforce development for Green Infrastructure.
- Understand the expectations of community members and city regulators around GI installations and maintenance.
- Learn about programs that have developed and grown a Green Water Workforce from the ground up.
Guest Speakers: Dr. Angela Chalk, Executive Director, Healthy Community Services (New Orleans) and Jeff Supak, Executive Director, Water Wise Gulf South
Certificate: This webinar has NOT been submitted for continuing education credit approval. We can provide a certificate of attendance to eligible attendees but cannot guarantee it will meet your PDH or CEU requirements.
Who Should Attend:
We invite rural, small, and tribal wastewater personnel, as well as planners, landscape architects, architects, consultants, engineers, designers, managers and board members, elected officials, policy experts, citizens, and community groups to join us for this series. We hope to build a community of systems, municipalities, and individuals interested in participating in a wide-ranging conversation about green infrastructure.
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Program Associate at the Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center