How an Epic Conservation Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action
Program Description
Prof. Gerry Warburg presents a discussion of his new, highly acclaimed history of the Pt. Reyes National Seashore and the decades-long effort to save this iconic region from overdevelopment and environmental degradation. A Marin native, he describes his years of research and investigation to bring this new chronicle to fruition and discusses the lessons policy-makers can glean from the events that led up to the present. The story of this unique open space – with its wild seashore, tule elk, elephant seals, lighthouse, and hiking trails – is of interest to everyone in Marin.
Speaker Bio
Gerald Felix Warburg is a professor of practice of public policy and assistant dean at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, where he teaches seminars in the masters of public policy program on legislative strategy and NGO best practices. A faculty affiliate of Bratten’s Center for Effective Lawmaking, he previously served as legislative assistant to Sen. Alan Cranston (CA) and Rep. Jonathan Bingham (NY). He has taught at Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communications, Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and for his alma maters of Hampshire College and Stanford University.
The author of numerous works on public policy, his latest volume is the newly published Saving Point Reyes: How an Epic Conservation Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action (available at the event and at University Press of Kansas). Gerry’s Marin bona fides are impeccable: he was born at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae and graduated from Redwood High in Larkspur.