2026 Long Island Sound Community Impact Fund New York Learning Exchange

9:30 – 10:00 am
Check-in / Networking & Refreshments

10:00 – 10:15 am
Welcome remarks from Restore America’s Estuaries and Long Island Sound Partnership

10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Panel Discussion on Access and Stewardship
• Guardians of Flushing Bay
• Metoac Indigenous Collective
• Environmental Leaders of Color
• The Point CDC

12:00 – 1:00 pm
Networking Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 pm
Breakout Sessions:
• Visual Storytelling through a Place-based Lens: Focusing on the Gowanus Neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York – Kellie Marty, RAE

• Stewardship & Volunteer Management – David Abreu, Save the Sound

2:30 – 2:50 pm
Closing Remarks

3:00 – 4:30 PM
Guided Tours:
• Entre Semilla y Fibra: Threads of Memory, Seeds of Land – Curated by Mazorca Colectiva
• Of the Earth: Connections – Curated by Shinnecock Member Shane Weeks
• Self-guided tour of Queens Museum