Friends of Mission Branch Library and Gardening Volunteers of South Texas are co-sponsoring a panel discussion of local efforts to mitigation extreme heat at the residential level with water and land conservation and urban trees with local community leaders:
Nancy Parrilla and Patricia Santos of Fuerza Unida Urban Heat Resiliency Program
Kamala Platt, San Antonio environmental and community activist, poet and online professor of literary arts of Arizona State University
Marisol Cortez, writer and executive editor of Deceleration News, which regularly covers the impacts of extreme heat on the most vulnerable and community efforts to correctly record heat-related deaths.
Moderator:
Adriana Rocha Garcia, PhD; president and chief executive officer of Center for Health Empowerment in South Texas; former San Antonio City Council representative of District 4 and current San Antonio Water System trustee representing its Southwest Quadrant.