Virtual Town Hall: Climate and the Future of Agriculture @GreatLakesNow
Virtual Town Hall: Climate and the Future of Agriculture  @GreatLakesNow
Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
Join Great Lakes Now and Weathered for a lively discussion and multimedia event all about the future of agriculture in the Great Lakes region and beyond. We'll watch an excerpt of Weathered and then GLN's Anna Sysling will moderate a panel of agriculture experts.

Featured guests include:
--Professor Douglas Jackson-Smith, Kellogg Chair of Agroecosystem Management in The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
--Lea Zeise, Coordinator at Ohe·laku Among the Cornstalks and Assistant Director of Office of Environmental Resource Management at United South and Eastern Tribes
--Dr. Erin Silva, Associate Professor and State Extension Specialist in Organic and Sustainable Cropping Systems in the Department of Plant Pathology, and Director for the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at UW-Madison
--Georgina Gustin, journalist covering agriculture for Inside Climate News, specializing in the intersections of farming, food systems and the environment
--Tepfirah Rushdan, Director of the Office of Sustainability for the City of Detroit

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