Speakers

Positive Peace conversations are structured dialogues designed to build long-term societal resilience, equity, and harmony rather than just resolving immediate conflicts. These conversations often center on the eight pillars of positive peace—such as low corruption, good relations with neighbors, and free flow of information—to foster understanding, collaboration, and structural change within communities.

Founded in Albany in 1936, YMCA Youth and Government is a premier national program that involves thousands of teens nationwide in state-organized, model-government programs. Students from every corner of New York State immerse themselves in experiential civic engagement through debate and discussion of issues which affect their fellow New Yorkers and by proposing legislation on a wide variety of topics.

The Hub is a team of trusted, knowledgeable, community-based organizations in and from your region of the State. They have experience with clean energy, energy efficiency, workforce and economic development, education, health, and housing.

Hubs help and provide information to individuals, small businesses, and affordable housing owners about the benefits of the clean energy economy, ways to reduce energy use and costs, and how to make more informed energy decisions.