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The Washington Oregon Cascadia Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) is a platform for inspiring change, facilitating action, and promoting collaboration related to sustainability and social justice within the region's higher education institutions. As a regional conference, WOHESC promotes a local focus, with dialogue specifically addressing issues in the Cascadia region. Solutions will be tailored for implementation and action in our unique political, social, economic, and environmental climate.
Our Program Committee is actively working to recruit diverse leadership perspectives to participate, attend and provide input on our conference program. We continue to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through conference thematic elements, speakers, partners and attendees and aim to center BIPOC voices in all the work that we do as a conference. We have an open call to BIPOC and diverse voices to advise and/or provide input. If you are interested in being a part of our Program Committee please email sierra@wohesc.org with more information about yourself and how you would like to be involved.
Jeff Bousson | Sustainability Officer, Central Washington University
Lindsey MacDonald | Associate Director, Sustainability Engagement Institute, Western Washington University
Dr. Taylor McHolm | Director for the Student Sustainability Center, University of Oregon
Susan Rivera | Senior Lecturer, Central Washington University
Jill Anne Smedstad | Equity Coordinator for Sustainability and Basic Needs Resourcing, Southern Oregon University
Monica J. Stenzel | Founder, Spokane Falls Sustainability Center; History Faculty, Spokane Falls Community College
Sarah Stoeckl, PhD | Director, Office of Sustainability, University of Oregon
Brandon Trelstad | Sustainability Officer, Oregon State University
Grace Wang | Director - WWU Sustainability Engagement Institute
"The event amplifies sustainability in our region by bringing together all the pieces of the sustainability puzzle-students, staff, faculty, and community-and allowing them to work and think collaboratively in a way that fosters real and lasting change upon returning to our home institutions."
- Jim Simon | Director of Sustainability, Gonzaga University