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Careers for Change: Water is Life

Name: Careers for Change: Water is Life
Start: 2024-04-25T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-04-25T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Reservoir Center

April 25 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

Meet peers and professionals working on global water access

Did you know 2.2 billion people around the world lack access to clean drinking water, including 2.2 million Americans?

Join a community of professionals using their careers to solve the world’s biggest water challenges and help communities become more water secure. This is an opportunity to meet and share what drives you in your career journey to have a positive impact on the world.

Everyone is welcome – college students, early-career professionals, and seasoned veterans alike.

Free food and refreshments. Doors open at 5:30 PM and the event begins at 6:30 PM.

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

Event Speakers

Keynote: George Hawkins

Founder and President

George Hawkins is the founder and CEO of Moonshot Missions. He was the General Manager of DC Water, where he served for eleven years, including several as a Board member. During his tenure, he became well known across the water sector for transforming DC Water into an innovative, customer-driven enterprise, while tripling its investment in clean water. DC Water’s innovations ranged from award winning Green Infrastructure and a $500 million investment in clean energy, to creative social media campaigns and patents for new treatment technologies that require less energy and chemicals but achieve better results. DC Water issued the nation’s first century bond, world’s first environmental impact bond, and spearheaded programs to support low-income customers and provide meaningful job opportunities for District residents.

Keynote: Anniestacia Denton

Utility Advisor

Anniestacia is an Alabama-registered Professional Engineer and Institute of Asset Management Certified Professional with six years of experience working with project teams on water/wastewater engineering design, evaluation, and modelling; utility business advisory; and asset management/capital improvement plan development projects. Anniestacia’s career highlights have included serving as the organizing team lead for an Innovative “hack” event with a United Nations-partnered international organization called UNLEASH to help address severe sanitation challenges in the Alabama Black Belt region. Anniestacia is passionate about enhancing utility resilience, community engagement and empowerment, and the assurance of equitable outcomes and opportunities for all, including the historically underserved.