Careers for Change: Resilience Reimagined

Name: Careers for Change: Resilience Reimagined
Start: 2025-04-24T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-24T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Reservoir Center

April 24 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

What is resilience? How can communities achieve greater resilience for all?

Connect with a community of professionals using their careers to reimagine what resilience means for you, your community, and our planet. Share what drives you and connect with others – peers and seasoned pros – striving to have a positive impact on the world.

This event continues our Careers for Change series that empowers professionals to harness their skills and energy to have a positive impact on the world around them.

Everyone is welcome – college students, early and late career professionals, and folks simply looking for a supportive community.

Free food and refreshments.

Doors open at 5:30 PM and the event begins at 6:00 PM.

Join Reservoir Center, Anacostia Riverkeeper and the GW Honey W. Nashman Center for a trash clean up at 4:15 – register here.

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Event Speakers

Keynote : Derek Vollmer, PhD

Derek Vollmer is Director for Waterscapes at WWF-US, supporting a portfolio of conservation projects around the world with an emphasis on climate change adaptation and ecosystem restoration. He is Chief Technical Advisor for Recharge Pakistan, the largest ecosystem-based adaptation project in the country, and currently advises on project design and monitoring for river basins in Brazil, Colombia, India, and Laos. He received his B.A. in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame, his M.Sc. in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins, and his Ph.D. in Spatial Planning from ETH Zurich.