Event Program

WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS

• Hon. Rex Richardson, President, SCAG
• Hon. Karen Bass, U.S. Representative, California 37th District; Chair, Congressional Black Caucus

FEATURED ADDRESS: “HOW DO WE BUILD AN INCLUSIVE ECONOMY?”

• Bina Shrimali, Manager, Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

SCAG REGION ECONOMIC UPDATE

• Wallace Walrod, Ph.D., SCAG Chief Economic Advisor

SESSION 1:
PANEL ON “LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESILIENCY IN THE ERA OF DISRUPTION”

• Tom Modica, City Manager, Long Beach
• Lori Ann Farrell Harrison, City Manager, Costa Mesa
• Cherian George, Global Head of Infrastructure and Project Finance, Fitch Ratings

Moderator: Kate Gordon, Director, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

SESSION 2:
ROUNDTABLES ON “TAKING ACTION TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE ECONOMY”

• ROUNDTABLE A: IMPROVING ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION
  Facilitator: Evelyn Blumenberg, Ph.D., Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies UCLA
• ROUNDTABLE B: IMPROVING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING
  Facilitator: Cecilia Estolano, Chief Executive Officer, Estolano Advisors
• ROUNDTABLE C: IMPROVING ACCESS TO GOOD JOBS
  Co-Facilitator: Karthick Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., Director, Center for Social Innovation, UC Riverside
  Co-Facilitator: Michael Bates Ph.D., Director, Economic Mobility Group, UC Riverside

KEYNOTE: “A CASE FOR OPTIMISM IN CHARTING AN ECONOMIC PATH FORWARD”

• Thomas Friedman, New York Times Columnist and Bestselling Author