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Please see below for information about our 5th Anniversary celebration.
Urban Agenda's 5th Anniversary
Honoring
THEODORE W. KHEEL
Urban Agenda is honored to be presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to Ted Kheel, a lifelong New Yorker and renowned lawyer and arbitrator. His approach to identifying common ground has made it possible for him to settle some of the most difficult labor disputes of the 20th century. The author of The Keys to Conflict Resolution, Kheel has concentrated more recently on resolving what is possibly the most serious challenge the world faces today: the intensifying conflict between the indispensable goals of environmental protection and economic development. In recognition of his accomplishments, Pace Law School recently established the Kheel Center on Environmental Interest Disputes.
Kheel’s commitment deeply inspires Urban Agenda’s work to promote the idea that environmental sustainability can be an engine for prosperous economic growth for all New Yorkers.
With Remarks By
EDWIN LOPEZ
New York Chapter Manager
National Electrical
Contractors Association
Since 2005, Edwin Lopez has been Executive Director of the New York Electrical Contractors Association, as well as Chapter Manager of the National Electrical Contractors Association, New York City Chapter. Lopez is a third generation Local 3 IBEW electrician, who started his career through apprenticeship in 1977. From 1992-2005, he was the Bronx Business Representative for Local 3’s Construction Division. In 2004, he served as the National Political Coordinator for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Washington, DC. He developed and coordinated the national grassroots political campaign, GOVT- Get out and Vote Campaign. His industry activities include being a director on the board of the Edward J. Malloy Initiative for Construction Skills, and president of the Somos Foundation. He is also an Association Executive of The Building Trades Employers Association (BTEA). Lopez earned his undergraduate degree in 1994 from the Empire State Labor College, and is currently working on his Masters degree at Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations.
KATHRYN WYLDE
President and CEO
Partnership for
New York City
Kathryn Wylde is President & CEO of the nonprofit Partnership for New York City, the city’s leading business organization. She joined the Partnership in 1982, served as founding President & CEO of its major two affiliates, the New York City Investment Fund and the Housing Partnership Development Corporation. Under her leadership, the Partnership played a major role in the revitalization of the city and its neighborhoods and has contributed to the city’s emergence as a premiere global center of commerce, culture and innovation. An internationally known expert in housing, economic development and urban policy, Wylde serves on a number of boards and advisory groups, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board, NYC Economic Development Corporation, NYC Leadership Academy, the Research Alliance for NYC Public Schools, the Manhattan Institute, the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York, the Lutheran Medical Center and the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the First Judicial District.
ELIZABETH YEAMPIERRE
Executive Director
UPROSE
Elizabeth C. Yeampierre, a Puerto Rican civil rights attorney born and raised in New York City, heads UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization. Her leadership at UPROSE has helped secure a million dollars for pollution reduction projects that are being shared and distributed throughout the community. She has also helped facilitate an aggressive urban forestry initiative which significantly contributed to the doubling of open space in Sunset Park. Yeampierre is also president of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, responsible for getting New York State’s first Brownfield legislation passed and NYC’s Solid Waste Management Plan passed. Yeampierre is a co-founder of CURE (Communities United for Responsible Energy) and OWN (Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods), and she also serves on Mayor Bloomberg’s Sustainability and Long Term Planning Advisory Board, the NYS Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Advisory Board, and the US EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
EVENT COMMITTEE
Mason Tenders District Council of Greater New York & Long Island, LIUNA
Laborers International Union of North America - Eeastern Regional Office
Nurture New York's Nature
SEIU Local 32BJ
Transport Workers Union, Local 100
Center For Sustainable Energy, Bronx Community College
City University of New York
Communication Workers of America, LOCAL 1180
International Union of Operating Engineers - Local 14-14B
International Union of Operating Engineers - Local 94--94A-94B
Laborers Local 78
Local 46 Labor Management Cooperative Trust
New York State AFL-CIO
Partnership for New York City
Segal
Safe Healthy Affordable Reliable Energy
United Federation of Teachers
