ICC Hosts Sierra Club’s Christine Nannicelli, Features Student Projects for Sustainability Contest Oct. 26
ICC will kick off its annual Student
Sustainability Presentation Contest with keynote speaker Christine Nannicelli,
senior campaign representative for Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign in
Illinois, who will discuss “Igniting a Just Transition to Clean Energy.”
Her presentation and the student contest will be held Thurs., Oct. 26
from 2 to 4 pm in the Lecture Recital Hall on the East Peoria Campus.
ICC students will
present projects relating to a variety of sustainability topics immediately
following the discussion. The presentation and Sustainability Presentation
Contest are free and open to the public.
Nannicelli works with
Sierra Club organizers, coalition partners and frontline volunteer leaders to
develop winning campaign strategies to transition Illinois' electric sector from
fossil fuels to clean energy. She played instrumental roles in the closure of
the Fisk and Crawford coal plants in Chicago, the passage of Illinois' Future
Energy Jobs Act, and was featured in the second season of National
Geographic's “Years of Living Dangerously” show for her work in Waukegan,
Ill. She has been active in campaign work for more than ten years, organizing
on behalf of progressive causes such as marriage equality, healthcare
legislation, and financial reform, and electoral campaigns of Barack Obama,
Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Brad Schneider, and other state and
municipal candidates. She also serves as the Board President for the Little
Village Environmental Justice Organization in Chicago and holds a bachelor’s
degree in religious studies and political science from Northwestern
University.
The ICC Sustainability
Committee was established in 2007 and sponsors student presentation contest
bi-annually. Topics address all three aspects of sustainability – society,
economics and the environment – and are limited to four to six minutes.
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