The POWHR Coalition and the Coalition for Environmentally Safe Communities are preparing for SWVA’s first Environmental Justice Mini Conference. We are excited to bring together Organizers, Community Members, Elected officials and Academia to discuss the ongoing challenges we face in SWVA. Sacrifice Zones, Data Centers, Flooding, Mutual Aid, Coal Impacts and Dirty Gas build outs are topics we hear so much about and hope to make space for meaningful conversations around each topic that impacts us.

Our goal is to have a panel discussion to uplift the topics mentioned above. We at the POWHR Coalition have invited panelists that we believe can share their lived experience and knowledge on each topic.

SWVA has long been left out of the conversation and isolated from each other, we at POWHR want to change that narrative. Our hope is for this to be a space for folks to network and come together around these issues.

Join us in this conversation around SWVA August 22, from 11-4 pm at Salem Public Library in Salem, VA (28 E Main St, Salem, VA 24153).  Please RSVP at this link,https://actionnetwork.org/events/swva-environmental-justice-mini-conference/. 

Please RSVP by August 17. We only have limited seating and we are preparing a wait list as we expect this will fill quickly. Reach out to Crystal (Crystal@powhr.org) and let us know if you're unable to attend after registration so we can open the space for someone else.