Schedule
2026 Schedule
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Registration
Coffee and donuts available in the Beier Auditorium Lobby
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Session One (Filmed Live in the Beier Auditorium)
- Beth Bennett: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Idaho State University
- Home is Where the Hope Is: Evidence of Hope in a Rural Community
- Cody Ferguson: New Market Lead, Houseal Lavigne
- Harnessing Historical Thinking and Technology to Better Our Future
- Lori G Byron: Board Chair, Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate
- Making health more sustainable with climate action
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Breakout Workshops
- MH 216: Working with Water
- In discussion with Pedro Marques & Arica Crootof
- MH 217: Feeding our Soil & Selves
- In discussion with Nicole Jarvis & Lorrie Carnes
- MH 218: Cultivating Hope in your Community
- In discussion with Beth Bennett & Laura Wright
Snacks and beverages available in the Beier Auditorium Lobby
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Session Two (Filmed Live in the Beier Auditorium)
- Ted Montalvo: BS Environmental Sustainability
- Changing Mindsets in a Convenience Culture
- Abigail McClaflin: BS Environmental Sciences
- Healing the Soil, Healing Our Communities
- Sasha Chudacoff: Life: Plastic Wrapped (Short Dance Film)
- Featuring poetry by Haley White and narration by Stephen Alan Seder
12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch (Lewis and Clark Room)
This location is across campus in Mathews Hall
2:00 p.m. | Special Performance (Filmed Live in the Beier Auditorium)
Special Performance featuring Butte’s Illumindance Theatre with music by the Sacred Earth Drummers and Djembe Aya.
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Breakout Workshops
- MH 216: Healthy Places, Healthy People
- In discussion with Lori Byron & Abbey McClaflin
- MH 217: Planning Resilient Communities
- In discussion with Cody Ferguson and Lauren Eriks-Cline
- MH 218: Community before Convenience
- In discussion with Ted Montalvo and Arica Crootof
Snacks and beverages available in the Beier Auditorium Lobby
3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Session Three (Filmed Live in the Beier Auditorium)
- Pedro Marques: Executive Director, Big Hole Watershed Committee
- AI Can’t Make Nature
- Nicole Jarvis: Founder, Bee Haven Gardens
- Resilience as Symbiotic Relationship
3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Meet and Mingle with Speakers in the Lobby (End of Conference)