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Women in Green 2021: What’s your Superpower?
Celebrating and unleashing our individual and collective superpowers to address the tough challenges we face together.
Event Information:
OUR BIGGEST WOMEN IN GREEN EVENT OF THE YEAR! Women are driving the sustainability of the built environment. We are tasked with the most important mission of all: healing the earth. The Women in Green Roundtable creates opportunities for women to thrive in this work and to raise each other up. Once a year we get together for a larger celebration of powerful women reimagining and reshaping our world. Once again, we will gather virtually during these difficult times.
This year’s annual “BIG WIG” will be a virtual Zoom event
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Rev. Mariama White-Hammond
Boston’s Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space.
Rev. Mariama White-Hammond has extensive background in embedding equity and environmental justice into Boston’s communities. She is the founding pastor of New Roots AME Church in Dorchester, a multi-racial, multi-class community. In this work, Rev. White-Hammond utilizes an intersectional lens to connect ecology, immigration, climate change, energy policy and economic justice. She is a fellow with the Green Justice Coalition, which brings together eight social/environmental justice groups from around Massachusetts. Rev. White-Hammond is a public speaker throughout the nation and was a leader for both the 2017 Boston Women’s March and Boston People’s Climate Mobilization. She has received numerous awards, including the Barr Fellowship, the Celtics Heroes Among Us, The Roxbury Founders Day Award and the Boston NAACP Image award. She was selected as one of the Grist 50 Fixers for 2019 and Sojourners 11 Women Shaping the Church.
Rev. White-Hammond joins the City of Boston with a three-pronged agenda to combat climate change and the environmental inequities that have been intensified by COVID-19. This roadmap consists of utilizing innovative approaches to mitigate extreme heat and create equitable cooling plans during the summer, enhancing food access through community gardens, as well as creating a new green jobs pipeline targeting workforce development for the younger generation.
Agenda
8:00-8:10 – Networking breakout groups
8:10-8:20 – Welcoming
8:20-8:50 – Breakout groups identifying and discussing superpowers
8:50-9:10 – All together report out with discussion on insights and impressions
9:10-10:00 – Guest speaker with discussion
Superpower Resources
RESOURCE LIST
Below is an abbreviated list of personal assessments that can help you identify your superpowers.
Sparketype
Online assessment. FREE. (Additional information/book available for a fee.)
https://sparketype.com/sparketest
The assessment reveals three key ‘Sparketypes’ custom to you: your primary, shadow and anti-sparketype. The dynamic between these three is useful in determining the balance that will make your life and career more meaningful.
Strengthfinder / Clifton Strengths
Online assessment $19.99 (or purchase book with online assessment code)
https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253676/how-cliftonstrengths-works.aspx
https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253922/popular-cliftonstrengths-books.aspx
Identifies your strengths based on the 10 Clifton Strengths themes. Discover what you naturally do best and learn how to develop your greatest talents into strengths.
16 Personalities
Online Assessment. FREE.
https://www.16personalities.com/
Learn how your personality type influences different part of your life. Identify which of the 16 types, related to MBTI types and personality traits, that you most identify with.
How Emotionally Intelligent Are You?
Quick fun online assessment. FREE
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/ei-quiz.htm
Discover your Dosha
Quick fun online assessment. FREE.
Discover your mindbody type. Your dosha is your individual blueprint that describes your unique personality, tendencies, and physical nature. Understanding your dosha reveals how to keep yourself in balance to stay happy, healthy and disease free.
DISC
Assessment by a facilitator.
Personality and behavioral assessment used to improve teamwork, communication, and productivity. Understand drivers of everyone in your workplace, based on four main behavioral styles, and learn how to work better together.
MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)
Assessment by a facilitator.
https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/
Personality type is a practical tool for investigating what works for you. Knowing which one of the16 personality types of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator you are, can help you look for and recognize work that satisfies you.
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Scholarship
Don't let cost keep you from attending. Scholarships for our events and trainings are provided by our friends at the R.W. Kern Center. Apply for free admission.
Sponsorship
If you would like to sponsor Women in Green: What’s your Superpower?, simply e-mail Meredith Elbaum at meredith@builtenvironmentplus.org or call the office directly 617-752-2422.
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About the BE+ Women in Green Roundtable
A venue for architects, designers, construction managers, and sustainability professionals to collaborate as Women in the industry. While women are dramatically underrepresented in the building industry, the disparity in green building is less severe. The Women in Green Roundtable creates opportunities for women to thrive in this work and to raise each other up.
PE | Associate, LeMessurier
Vice President, AEW’s Architecture & Engineering group
Interior Designer, Jacobs, Boston
Senior Vice President, Market Transformation and Development U.S. Green Building Council
AIA LEED AP BD+C | Senior Associate, Gensler Boston 
LEED Fellow, WELL AP | Founder and Principal, Ecoworks Studio
LEED AP BD+C | Environmental Sustainability Manager, Armstrong World Industries
Sustainability Director, Steven Winter Associates
Assistant Professor of Exposure Science | Director of the Healthy Buildings program
Managing Director, Harvard University Office for Sustainability
Principal & Director of Certifications and Consulting, Epsten Group, Inc.
Vice President of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Jamestown
Founder and Principal, Linnean Solutions | LEED AP, O+M; EcoDistrict AP
Associate Principal, BuroHappold Engineering
Senior Vice President, Sustainability at Kilroy Realty Corporation
Co-Founder, Facilitator at The Laurentia Project | LEED AP BD+C, LFA
Founder and President, Board of the Healthy Building Network
Building Technology Director, Kingspan North America
LEED® AP ID+C, BD+C, USGBC Faculty, WELL® AP, WELL Faculty and Fitwel Ambassador
Workplace Strategy Expert and Researcher, EYP
Principal, Integrated Ecostrategy
Senior Vice President, International WELL Building Institute
AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP
Principal, Bruner/Cott
Architect, Associate, and Sustainability Design Leader, Stantec Architecture and Engineering
FAIA, LEED Fellow, Long Green Specs
Products & Materials Specialist, BuildingGreen
Director of Acquisitions and Development
Director of Restorative Enterprise, Interface
Vice President of Sustainable Development, Shaw
Sustainability Manager, Consigli Construction Company
Global Head of Sustainability, Superior Essex