Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: A Donner Climate Series Talk

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Collaborating to Build a Resilient Aquidneck Island with Paige Myatt and Glennie LeBaron
About this Event

Aquidneck Island Land Trust is pleased to host a community conversation on “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Collaborating to Build a Resilient Aquidneck Island” with Glennie LeBaron and Paige Myatt. Join us on June 9 at 6 p.m. at the DiStefano Lecture Hall at Salve Regina University, 56 Lawrence Avenue, Newport, RI. This event is free and open to the public.

Paige, Director of Aquidneck Resilience, and Glennie, Community Engagement Manager, will share how their team has been able to work across municipal boundaries, leverage existing community expertise, and incorporate island values as they embark on an island-wide planning process. The Climate Resilience Plan will serve as a guidebook to reduce our community’s risk to severe weather events.

Learn about their approach to community engagement how they’ve been able to strengthen relationships between organizations to address our island’s greatest climate challenges. Attendees should come prepared to participate in fun activities and share their insight on their goals for Aquidneck Island!

Aquidneck Island Land Trust thanks the William H. Donner Foundation for sponsoring this public lecture.

Bios:

Paige Myatt, Director of Resilience, Aquidneck Resilience
Paige leads the Aquidneck Resilience initiative, a collaboration between the City of Newport, Town of Middletown, Town of Portsmouth, and Naval Station Newport, hosted at the Aquidneck Island Land Trust. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a Master’s degree in Climate and Society. Paige has worked with Aquidneck Island municipalities and community partners to advance climate resilience projects across jurisdictional boundaries for the past four years. She’s grateful to call Aquidneck Island home for over a decade and enjoys biking around the Island!

Glennie LeBaron, Community Engagement Manager
Glennie is the Community Engagement Manager for the Aquidneck Resilience initiative. A gifted connection-builder and Brown University alum, she’s completed fieldwork from Maine, to Alaska, and underwater in the Galapagos. Glennie began working on climate resilience while at a land trust in New Hampshire and most recently served as the Climate Resiliency Coordinator on Block Island with The Nature Conservancy. On Aquidneck Island, she cultivates vibrant, interconnected systems, ensuring we have the social and physical infrastructure critical for a thriving island. Catch her and her big dog out for a swim or on the Sakonnet Greenway trails!