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Thursday January 25, 2024 | 1:00 - 3:30 PM

Welcome, and thank you for joining us!

We will get started shortly. Please note that we have muted all participants. See instructions in the chat for how to participate in today’s event.

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Welcome to the 2024 Virtual Colorado Resiliency Summit!

“Stories of Resilience: Uniting for Climate Adaptation”

Opening Remarks:

Anne Miller

Director

Colorado Resiliency Office

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Today’s Agenda:

1:00 - 1:05 | Welcome & Introductions

1:05 - 1:20 | Keynote Presentation - Ernest House, Jr., Senior Policy Director/Director for the Center of Tribal & Indigenous Engagement, Keystone Policy Center

1:20 - 1:50 | Stories of Resilience

1:50 - 2:00 | Break

2:00 - 2:10 | Climate Adaptation at the State of Colorado

2:10 - 3:10 | Breakout Sessions

  • Session 1 - Beyond Data: Telling Your Community’s Story with Multimedia, People, and Places
  • Session 2 - Finding Common Ground through Storytelling

3:10 - 3:30 | Final Comments & Adjournment

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Keynote Presentation

Senior Policy Director and Director for the Center of Tribal and Indigenous Engagement | Keystone Policy Center

Ernest House, Jr.

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Beyond Land Acknowledgments – Stories of Resilience

Ernest House, Jr.

Senior Policy Director

Director, Center of Tribal and Indigenous Engagement

Keystone Policy Center

Jan 25, 2024

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Colorado’s American Indian/Alaska Native Population

  • American Indians/Alaska Natives make up less than 2% of the total Colorado population
  • Over 80,000 AI/AN statewide with over 80% living within the Denver metro area (7 county district)
  • Over 150 tribes are represented among that 80% AI/AN living the urban area
  • Sioux nations are most represented and Navajo Nation members are fastest growing

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Seven Ute Indian Bands and Original Ute Territory

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Denver

Salt Lake City

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Santa Fe

Hunting Ground

Uintah

Weeminuche

Capote

Uncompahgre

Mouache

Yampa &

Grand River

By Southern Ute Indian Tribe

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1895 through Present-Day Ute Reservations of Colorado

By Southern Ute Indian Tribe

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Tribes with a Legacy of Occupation in Colorado

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma

Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

Comanche Indian Tribe

Crow Creek Sioux Tribe

Crow Nation

Eastern Shoshone Tribe of Wind River Indian Reservation

Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma

Hopi Tribe

Jicarilla Apache Tribe

Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma

Mescalero Apache Tribe

Navajo Nation

Northern Arapaho Tribe

Northern Cheyenne Tribe

Oglala Sioux Tribe

Ohkay Owingeh (Pueblo of San Juan)

Osage Nation of Oklahoma

Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah

Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma

Pueblo of Acoma

Pueblo of Cochiti

Pueblo of Isleta

Pueblo of Jemez

Pueblo of Laguna

Pueblo of Nambe

Pueblo of Picuris

Pueblo of Pojoaque

Pueblo of San Felipe

Pueblo of San Ildefonso

Pueblo of Sandia

Pueblo of Santa Ana

Pueblo of Santa Clara

Pueblo of Santo Domingo

Pueblo of Taos

Pueblo of Tesuque

Pueblo of Zia

Pueblo of Zuni

Rosebud Sioux Tribe

San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes

Southern Ute Indian Tribe

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Three Affiliated Tribes of Mandan, Hidatsa, & Arikara Nation

Ute Indian Tribe (Uintah & Ouray Reservation)

Ute Mountain Ute Tribe

Wichita and Affiliated Tribes

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo

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Tribal Collaboration, Co-Management, and Land Back!

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“Collaboration Happens at the Speed of Trust”

The Need for Local/Tribal Consultation…

  • To enable the creation of strategies that effectively address the unique challenges and opportunities.
  • To leverage opportunities for mutually beneficial collaborations between Municipalities, State Agencies, Tribes, and Colorado’s AI/AN communities.
  • To meet consultation requirements established under MOU and/or additional federal or state guidelines.

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Thank you for your time!

TOGOY-AQK

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Keynote Session Question & Answer

Moderated by

Shayle Sabo

Resiliency Program Manager

Colorado Resiliency Office

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Welcome to the 2024 Virtual Colorado Resiliency Summit!

“Stories of Resilience: Uniting for Climate Adaptation”

Maria De Cambra

Executive Director

Colorado Department of Local Affairs

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Stories of Resilience

Andrea Gibson

Colorado Poet Laureate

Beth Osnes

Professor, Dept. of Theatre & Dance, University of Colorado Boulder

Destiny Hardney & Wayne Watts

Dream, Create, Inspire Tour

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Stories of Resilience Question & Answer

Moderated by

Shayle Sabo

Resiliency Program Manager

Colorado Resiliency Office

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Take a Break! We will be back in 5 minutes!

Up next:

  • What is happening in the Climate Adaptation space at the State of Colorado?
  • Simultaneous Breakout Sessions (You choose!)
    • Session 1 | Beyond Data: Telling Your Community’s Story with Multimedia, People, & Places
    • Session 2 | Finding Common Ground through Storytelling

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Climate Adaptation at the State of Colorado

An overview of strategic planning efforts, programs, and progress

Jonathan Asher

Director

Governor’s Office of Climate Preparedness and Disaster Recovery

Anne Miller

Director

Colorado Resiliency Office

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Building Capacity at the State

  • SB 22-206 | Standing up of the Governor’s Office of Climate Preparedness and Disaster Recovery (CPO)

  • Further interagency coordination and climate-related strategic planning efforts

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Innovation at the State

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Looking At What’s Ahead

  • 2025 Update of the Colorado Resiliency Framework
  • 2nd Round of Energy & Mineral Impact Fund (EIAF) Climate Resilience Challenge | Opens March 1!
  • Climate Resilient Colorado Program

Colorado’s Climate Action Website

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Breakout Sessions

Moderators

Session 1 | Beyond Data: Telling Your Community’s Story with Multimedia, People, & Places

Marguerite Harden | Patrick Garrett

Session 2 | Finding Common Ground through Storytelling

Julia Masters | Kate Guibert

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Breakout Session 1 | Beyond Data: Telling Your Community’s Story with Multimedia, People, and Places

No matter your audience, it all comes back to telling the story of your community needs and opportunities. With so many examples of interesting technologies, tools, and resources for storytelling, this session will highlight creative storytelling approaches that showcase Colorado’s climate adaptation issues, including social and natural resource impacts. We’ll reference how equity-related data can tell a story, but how the use of multimedia and qualitative approaches can be used to weave a more complete story.

Evan Barrientos

Conservation Filmmaker and Photographer, Creator of Fireforest

Phaedra Pezzullo, PhD.

Associate Professor, CU Boulder College of Media, Communication, and Information

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Breakout Session 2 | Finding Common Ground through Storytelling

While diverse perspectives exist on climate issues, it is essential to recognize that we all share a common planet and future. Stories are powerful tools that can motivate and mobilize individuals and communities towards common objectives. This breakout will feature personal stories, experiences, challenges, and real-world examples where storytelling has facilitated the achievement of climate adaptation goals and fostered sustainable action.

This session will underscore the importance of finding common ground and fostering unity among different stakeholders to collectively combat climate change.

Sarah Bucci

Climate Nexus

Pat Keyes

Associate Professor, CSU Dept. of Atmospheric Science

Heather Bergman

Senior Facilitator and President, Peak Facilitation

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The Breakout Rooms will Open Shortly!

Instructions for Breakouts:

  • Choose the breakout of interest to you
  • You will be muted upon entry. Please remain muted during panel presentations.
  • Feel free to use the chat to ask questions
  • Please also keep videos off during panel presentations
  • Breakout sessions are recorded. These are an open space where all perspectives are welcomed, however please be mindful and considerate

Due to limitations of Zoom, we are unable to have simultaneous interpretation in both breakout rooms. We will only be opening one breakout room, (Breakout Session 2), which will NOT have interpretation in Spanish. Breakout Session 1 will remain here in the Main room, you will NOT have to select to go to a breakout room.

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Breakout Session Report-Outs & Key-Takeaways

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Wrap up & Conclusions

Goals & Next Steps for the CRO in 2024

Additional Opportunities and Resources from the CRO:

From DOLA

Thank you for attending!

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What is your biggest challenge in telling your Climate Adaptation Story?

  • Differing Voices/Differing Opinions
  • Politics
  • Funding
  • Capacity
  • Resistance to Change
  • Overwhelm/Not Knowing Where to Start
  • Varying Definitions of Adaptation
  • Lack of Understanding of Risk
  • Lack of Understanding of Urgency
  • Community Nuances
  • Uniqueness of Community Needs
  • Language Barriers
  • Reach
  • Capacity
  • Difficulty Visualizing Future Impacts
  • Ability to Connect to Individual Experiences
  • Need for Community Champions

  • Incorporating Climate Strategies into Existing and Future Strategic Planning Efforts
  • Finding Unifying Messages Across Sectors
  • Avoiding “Doom & Gloom” Messaging
  • Balancing Current Community Stressors and Needs with Communicating Future Impacts
  • Need for Vocabulary/Education
  • Balancing Economic Growth with Climate Strategies
  • Transitioning Industries
  • Competing Needs
  • Tools to Tell Story/ Storytelling Skills
  • Lack of Data
  • Confidence in Data
  • Concerns About the Stories NOT Being Told/Communities Being Left Out
  • Stakeholder Buy In
  • Need for Coordination/Partnerships at All Levels of Government
  • Lack of Resources
  • Mobilizing Community Members to Action
  • Ability to Distill Down Complex Information
  • Rural Community Challenges

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Thank you for attending!

Be sure to check out our website:

www.coresiliency.com