Scaling Resilience Hubs: Tools and Lessons for a Climate-Ready North Front Range

In the face of increasing wildfires, extreme heat, power outages, and other disruptions, cities and towns are looking for solutions that will allow them thrive in a climate-impacted reality.

Resilience hubs are one tool in a suite that communities—like those in the North Front Range of Colorado—are using to prepare for worsening climate impacts. These hubs can take many shapes and forms, but at their core, they are enhanced community-serving facilities that provide critical resources to vulnerable residents on a daily basis, as well as during and after climate disasters and other emergencies.

Through a series of collaborative events to inform, connect, and empower key stakeholders in the North Front Range, C2ES developed a regional toolkit to guide the implementation of community-serving resilience hubs. The new toolkit introduces the spectrum of resilience hub models, showcases local examples, and offers best practices and key resources to implement them.

This webinar will introduce resilience hubs, explore how local leaders are deploying these solutions in the region, and launch a new regionally tailored implementation toolkit to help leaders advance hubs in their own communities and organizations.

Click here to learn more about C2ES’s resilience work in the Colorado North Front Range.

Keynotes

Governor Jared Polis
Governor for the State of Colorado

Governor Jared Polis is an entrepreneur, education leader, and public servant. After launching several successful companies, including one out of his college dorm room, Polis committed himself to making sure other Coloradans had the opportunity to pursue their dreams. Polis founded schools for at-risk students and new immigrants and started…

Nat Keohane
President, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

Nathaniel Keohane is President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), which is widely recognized in the United States and internationally as a leading, independent voice for practical policy and action to address the world’s energy and climate challenges. Dr. Keohane is an economist with more than 20 years…

Speakers

Gloria Kat
Executive Director of La Familia

Gloria Kat is the Executive Director of The Family Center/La Familia, a family resource center serving Northern Colorado. The center is a safe, trusted space where children can access early care and education, families improve social skills, reduce isolation, develop leadership, and access community resources. Gloria’s nonprofit career began 15…

Andrea Savage
Co-Founder, Associate Director, Community Organizer of Commún Denver

Andrea Savage is the Co-Founder, Associate Director, and Climate Organizer at Commún, a nonprofit in Southwest Denver that is opening a Community Center and Resilience Hub on the historic Loretto Heights campus. Andrea is also a musician, writing and performing music about climate change and social justice under the name…

Allison James
Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Manager for Town of Superior

Allison James is the Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Manager for the Town of Superior, Colorado. Allison is a dedicated professional with a broad background in construction, land management, public engagement and community service. She holds a BAS in Project Management and an MSA in Acquisitions and Contract Administration. Allison is…

Anne Miller
Director of Colorado Resiliency Office

Anne Miller, AICP, works as the Director of the Colorado Resiliency Office in the Department of Local Affairs. She has over 25 years of community development experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Anne has a Master’s of Urban Planning and Policy degree from the University of Illinois at…

Libby Zemaitis — Moderator
Senior Manager for Resilience Programs , Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

Libby Zemaitis is the Senior Manager for Resilience Programs and Policy at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Ms. Zemaitis manages the Climate Resilient Communities Accelerator. This multi-year initiative builds resilience in regions with critical climate hazards to create opportunities for new and stronger partnerships. The accelerator also works to reduce…