Climate Change: What It Means for Our Children

Adele Simmons, President, Global Philanthropy Partnership, will present, “Climate Change: What It Means for Our Children.” Adele Simmons co-chaired Mayor Daley’s Chicago Climate Action Plan and helped implement Mayor Emmanuel’s Sustainable Chicago 2015. She served as co-chair of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs study The Global Edge: An Agenda for Chicago’s Future. Mrs. Simmons helped establish the Urban Sustainability Network that convenes sustainability directors from 125 cities in the U.S. and Canada. She was President of the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation from 1989 to 1999 and President of Hampshire College from 1977-1989. She currently serves of the boards of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Field Museum, Ceres, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Synergos Institute, and the American Prospect.

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