Sandy One Year Later: Looking to the Future Conference

What: Sandy One Year Later:
Looking to the Future Conference

Date: Oct. 29, 2013, 8:30 am –
4:30 pm

Speakers: Governor James
Florio, Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Admiral Thad Allen, and many other
distinguished speakers.

Venue: Pollak Theatre, Monmouth
University, West Long Branch, N.J.

Topics: What have we
accomplished? What have we learned? What do we still need to do?

Presented by:
Monmouth University, New Jersey Future, Union of Concerned Scientists, New
Jersey Recovery Fund

Cost:  Free and open to
public. Registration is required by visiting www.njfuture.org. 
A continental breakfast and boxed lunch will be provided.

Sandy One Year Later: Looking to the Future, a day-long
conference taking place at Monmouth University on the one-year anniversary of
the worst natural disaster ever to hit New Jersey, will be held on October 29,
2013. The conference will address three critical questions about the Sandy
recovery process: What have we accomplished? What have we learned? What do we
still need to do?

Distinguished speakers, including former governors James
Florio and Christine Todd Whitman, will highlight the economic and planning
impacts of Sandy and of potential future storms, and will discuss things New
Jersey and its municipalities need to be doing in order to be better prepared for
the next severe weather event.

Keynote speaker is Monmouth University's 2013 National
Champion of the Ocean recipient Admiral Thad Allen (USCG, retired). Admiral
Allen directed the federal response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and was
national incident commander for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

For more information, visit www.njfuture.org.

Immediately following the conference, from 3-7 pm,
Monmouth University’s 9th annual Social Work Teach-In on Justice Surrounding
Natural Disasters will take place in Monmouth University’s Student
Center.  Keynote speaker is Dean of the Tulane School of Social Work Ron
Marks.  For more information, call 732- 571-3543.