Achieving a Healthy & Sustainable Future

October 22nd and 23rd, 2024


This year’s Environmental Health Leadership Summit will focus on environmental justice principles, civic engagement, community benefits, zero emissions transportation challenges, training the workforce for the just transition, and include opportunities for you to connect with community, advocates, professionals, and experts.

While we are still in the midst of the development of Lithium Valley, we are still dealing with historical challenges in our community. The generational opportunity to transform our local economy and provide future generations with cleaner energy, zero emissions technologies, and high road jobs is tempting, but we musn’t sacrifice our communities to provide these for others without direct benefits to our fenceline populations. As always, we have to remember that we are ALL the stewards of our environment and that just as we inherited a habitable land, we must improve on it and leave it improved for future generations.

We don’t ask to become leaders and advocate for our communities, and our communities don’t ask to become environmental justice waypoints. But everyone here today steps up when injustices happen. It’s in this spirit that Comite Civico del Valle welcomes all to the Environmental Health Leadership Summit to express their passion and their frustrations, and collaborate on ways to build capacity around specific issues or identify solutions where they exist.


Comite Civico del Valle proudly welcomes you to join the 13th Environmental Health Leadership Summit on October 22nd & 23rd at the Old Eucalyptus Schoolhouse in El Centro, CA. The Summit is our annual gathering designed to cultivate partnerships for the advocacy of environmental health concerns in underserved communities across the Salton Sea region and beyond.

With over 30 years of advocating for environmental justice communities, educating community on environmental health, and training new community leaders, Comite Civico Del Valle brings together diverse experts, community stakeholders, youth leadership, environmental justice organizations, academia, and researchers to help centralize their commitment to improving environmental health and social injustices through advocacy, education and engagement.

The 2024 Summit aims to create a dynamic gathering for attendees to experience two days of enrichment through workshops, panels, and networking to stimulate discussion and excitement of various topics surrounding environmental and public health.

This is why we host the Summit, to make sure that we abide by our mission that "Informed people build healthy communities."

Speakers


We will periodically update the list of speakers, presenters, and invited guests at this year’s Summit.

Schedule


  • “Our schedule will be periodically updated as we confirm sessions for this year’s Summit.”

Resources at this year’s Environmental Health Leadership Summit


  • Respira Sano
  • Lithium Valley
    • Imperial Valley EV Charger Equity Initiative
    • High Road Training for Lithium Valley
    • Lithium Valley Community Coalition
  • IVAN Community
  • Trusted Messengers
  • Salton Sea COEE
  • Driving Clean California

Sponsors


“We would like to thank you in advance for your consideration and generosity in supporting the 13th edition of the Environmental Health Leadership Summit. For any questions and to confirm your sponsorship, please contact Comite Civico del Valle Executive Director, Luis Olmedo via email at luis@ccvhealth.org

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