EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 9-11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 8, 2023

EVENT: Co-hosted by the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers, the 2023 Great Lakes Compact Symposium will feature a discussion of the past, present and future of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact on the compact’s 15th anniversary.

The event will include three panel discussions focusing on the development, passage and future of the compact. The moderators are Peter Annin, director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation and author of “Great Lakes Water War,” and Andy Buchsbaum, lecturer at the U-M Law School and former member of the Compact Development Stakeholder Advisory Committee.

PLACE: U-M Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor

RSVP: The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

MEDIA: Notify Craig Clark if you plan to attend the event, craig@clarkcommunication.com

SPONSORS: The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, Great Lakes Protection Fund, U-M Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Erb Institute, Graham Sustainability Institute, U-M Water Center, Ford School of Public Policy, Ross School of Business, and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

PARTICIPANTS:

• David Naftzger, executive director, Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers
• Frank Ettawageshik, executive director, United Tribes of Michigan
• David de Launay, chair of the board of directors and president, Ma’mo’weh Wii’soo’ka’tiwin Foundation, supporting the work of First Nations within Treaty 3 Territory (northwestern Ontario), former deputy minister of the Ontario provincial government
• Kate Bartter, executive director, Ohio State Sustainability Institute, former chief policy adviser to Gov. Taft of Ohio
• Todd Ambs, formerly of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
• Jon Allan, academic and research program officer senior at U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, former member of the Compact Development Stakeholder Advisory Committee
• Peter Annin, director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College, author of “The Great Lakes Water Wars”
• Peter Johnson, deputy director, Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers
• Molly Flanagan, chief operating officer and vice president for programs at the Alliance for the Great Lakes, former program officer at The Joyce Foundation and staff member of the National Wildlife Federation and the Ohio Environmental Council
• Andy Buchsbaum, lecturer at the U-M Law School and former member of the Compact Development Stakeholder Advisory Committee
• Liesl Eichler Clark, U-M’s director of climate action engagement, former director of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy