Community Conversation

Live Stream of the Texas Tribune's Symposium on the Future of Rural Texas
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- Community Conversation
- 2018-11-13T11:00:00-06:00
- 2018-11-13T16:00:00-06:00
- Live Stream of the Texas Tribune's Symposium on the Future of Rural Texas
- When Nov 13, 2018 from 11:00 AM to 04:00 PM (US/Central / UTC-600)
- Where Johnson City Library
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11:15am-12:05pm Preserving Natural Resources
- Blair Fitzsimons, CEO of the Texas Agricultural Land Trust
- Marilu Hastings, vice president for sustainability at the Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation
- State Rep. Kyle Kacal, R-College Station
- Roel Lopez, director of the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute
- Moderated by Andrew Sansom, executive director of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University
12:05pm Lunch will be provided.
12:45-1:35pm The View from Rural Communities
- Donnie Allred, Oldham County judge
- Shelley Brophy, mayor of Nacogdoches
- Alma Moreno, San Patricio County commissioner
- Ramiro Rodriguez, mayor of Palmhurst
- Moderated by Evan Smith, co-founder and CEO of The Texas Tribune
1:45-2:15pm The State of the Rural Economy
- Glenn Hegar, Texas comptroller of public accounts
2:25-3:15pm Building an Economic Future
- Becky Garlick, executive dean of Blinn College
- Arleene Loyd, executive director of the Gainesville Economic Development Corporation
- Joe Outlaw, professor and extension economist in the department of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University
- Ines Polonius, CEO of Communities Unlimited
- Moderated by Alana Rocha, multimedia reporter for The Texas Tribune
3:25-4:00- Group Discussion
“This is an independently organized event inspired by reporting from The Texas
Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and
engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.”