Schedule
April 10, 2024
Tentative schedule, times and speakers are subject to change.
Questions? uicurban@uic.edu
2024 Urban Forum Schedule Heading link
| TIME | SESSION | DESCRIPTION | SPEAKERS |
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| 12:00-12:30 p.m. | Registration and Networking | Box lunch will be available. | |
| 12:30-12:45 p.m. | Welcome Remarks | Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Department Head, Urban Planning and Policy, UIC Karen Colley, Provost, UIC Joe Hoereth, Director, Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement; Director, Urban Forum, UIC |
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| 12:45-1:15 p.m. | Keynote Address | Geoffrey Baer, Executive Producer/On-Air Host, WTTW | |
| 1:15-2:15 p.m. | Panel Discussion | What Trends Will Matter Most to Chicago's Well-Being Over the Next Fifty Years? | Ayana Contreras, Cultural historian, memory worker, radio DJ at WBEZ Nina Idemudia, AICP, Chief Executive Officer, Center for Neighborhood Technology Marisa Novara. Vice President, Community Impact, The Chicago Community Trust Nik Theodore, UIC Distinguished Professor; Director Center for Urban Economic Development Rachel Weber, Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, UIC *moderator |
| 2:15-2:30 p.m. | Break | ||
| 2:30-3:00p.m. | Keynote Address | Lee Bey, Architecture Critic, Chicago Sun-Times; Author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side | |
| 3:00-3:15 pm | Introductory Remarks | Interviewing a 237 Year Old Chicago | Jacoby Cochran, Host, City Cast Chicago, Educator, Storyteller, Writer |
| 3:15-4:30 p.m. | Lightning Talk Presentations | The Lightning Talk segment is intended to introduce audience members to provocative and creative ideas for making Chicago's future brighter. Listen to our dynamic, forward-thinking speakers lay out a single idea or vision to improve some aspect of Chicago's future built, natural or social environments. | Oscar Chacón, Executive Director, Alianza Americas Chandra Christmas-Rouse, Director, Metropolitan Planning Council Jeremy Cuebas, Transportation Organizer, Northwest Center Chicago Christian Diaz, Director of Equitable Community Development, Palenque LSNA Farzaneh Khayat, Postdoc Fellow, Institute for Racial Justice, Loyola University Chicago Yolanda Lawler, Program Officer, North Lawndale, Steans Family Foundation Dominica McBride, Founder and CEO, BECOME Harish I. Patel, Vice President, Economic Security Project Kalindi Parikh, Strategy Director, Current Ayesha Qazi-Lampert, Environmental Science Educator, Chicago Public Schools Anjulie Rao, Freelance Journalist; Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Adjunct Faculty, Illinois Institute of Technology; Columnist, ARCHITECT Magazine Dawveed Scully, Managing Deputy Commissioner, Chicago Department of Planning and Development Kelsey Zlevor, Spatial Strategist |
| 4:30-4:45 p.m. | Video Address Closing Remarks | Brandon Johnson, Mayor, City of Chicago Stacey Swearingen White, Dean, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
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| 4:45-5:30 p.m. | Adjourn/Networking | ||
| 5:30-6:00 p.m. | Shuttles to UPP 50th Anniversary Lacuna Loft Event | separate ticket needed |