Meigs Environmental Leadership Award – Building Sustainable, Resilient Communities

In a virtual forum, we will present the 2020 Henry Meigs Environmental Leadership Award, our highest honor, to Jerome Shabazz, the founder and Executive Director of the Overbrook Environmental Education Center (OEEC), a community-based center in West Philadelphia dedicated to preserving the built and natural environment. Shabazz will share his insights into engaging in local environmentalism, the pillars of which are “inclusion, equity, prosperity, trust, and justice.” Philadelphia’s climate resilience coordinator Saleem Chapman, landscape architect Tavis Dockwiller, and Jefferson University’s Radika Bhaskar will join Jerome to discuss this new movement in a town meeting format that includes your questions.

In addition, we will present 17-year-old Philadelphian Sabirah Mahmud with the Henry Meigs Youth Environmental Leadership Award for her work leading climate strikes statewide.