Special Guest Speaker: We will be joined by Catherine Nagel, Executive Director of City Parks Alliance, for a parkside chat with Beth. Catherine has led City Parks Alliance for eighteen years, growing the nonprofit organization from its inception to an internationally recognized learning and advocacy network. As the only independent, nationwide membership organization solely dedicated to urban parks, City Parks Alliance provides top-quality educational programs for professionals, spurs cutting-edge research, and brings together a broad base of champions as a voice for urban parks. Under Catherine’s leadership, the organization has worked with mayors throughout the country to permanently fund federal legislation for environmental conservation and leverage more than $400 million to build urban parks in distressed communities.