Building from the Louisville Sustainability Council's mission to connect communities in pursuit of a sustainable and equitable future, we are proud to host Louisville 2030: A Better Tomorrow Begins Today. For this year's Louisville Sustainability Summit, we’re convening local and regional leaders in the business, non-profit, and government space to speak on policy, activism, and the sustainability movement required to shape a community vision for Louisville 2030.

With an ever-increasing urgency to address and mitigate the effects of climate change and environmental injustice, this event features key examples of projects and programs focused on infrastructural solutions needed to address the sustainability and equity issues we face. Speakers and community members will share their vision, goals, and specific strategies for creating the Louisville we collectively envision by 2030. In addition, this event will highlight the work of local artists, youth activist voices, and emerging leaders from local, regional, and national sustainability perspectives.

Keynote Speaker

Douglas

Edwards

Moderated by Holli Turner

Mr. Edwards is an executive with several years of experience leading large and complex
operations, profit and loss responsibilities, and significant capital and operating budgets.
He’s done this while building high performing teams by finding and developing top talent
and creating cultures where customer centricity is at the center of every key decision and
action. Currently, Mr. Edwards serves as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Associate &
Business Solutions for Humana where he reports directly to the Chief Administrative Officer
and is responsible for many enterprise shared service functions including the HR contact
center, associate relations and solutions, environmental health & safety, security, payroll,
benefits administration, corporate real estate and facilities, and business aviation operations.
Mr. Edwards is also a member of the enterprise Executive Inclusion and Diversity Council
for Humana.

Previously Mr. Edwards served as Managing and Regional Director for Jones Lang LaSalle’s
account with Bank of America where he led an organization of 80+ professionals and
oversaw all real estate operations in 14 Midwestern states and Canada. He also served as the
Retail Project Management Platform Director on the same account providing executive
oversight to a team of 45+ professionals in the construction and renovations of retail real
estate for Bank of America and as the National Transition Team Lead for the firm’s
Corporate Solutions business where he provided leadership and oversight of complex real
estate portfolio transitions of new clients.
Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle, Mr. Edwards worked for BellSouth where he led a team
of 140+ call center associates and managers to a 20% improvement in customer satisfaction
and a 10% improvement in employee satisfaction. He also led marketing efforts which
successfully drove 80,000 new product orders annually. Prior to this, Mr. Edwards was a
Project Engineer for Williams where he provided lead engineering support for projects
totaling $20 million in capital annually.

Mr. Edwards is a graduate of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill and
holds a Master of Business Administration. He also holds a Bachelor Degree in Civil
Engineering from NC State University. Mr. Edwards serves on the Board of Directors for the
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky, the Lincoln Foundation of Louisville, the Louisville Zoo,
and the NC State University Libraries. He a member of the Executive Leadership Council
and World 50. He’s also an alum of Leadership Louisville and Leadership Charlotte.

Holli Turner, leads the Supplier Diversity and Sustainability initiatives for Humana, Inc. She currently resides in Louisville, KY but is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. Holli is a highly experienced, innovative thinker with over 20 years of high level Diversity, Operational and Sales leadership experience with progressive organizations. She has successfully demonstrated Six Sigma continuous improvement initiatives throughout a 10 -distribution center and logistics network. Ms. Turner created new and improved supplier diversified yet sustainable solutions within an overall Global Supply Chain Network while further fostering collaborative growth opportunities particularly in the business to business sectors.

Ms. Turner is a critical thinker with a very diverse background. She has assumed multiple corporate leadership roles where she was considered the subject matter expert in a variety of areas, such as:
Assistant Vice President of Distribution & Logistics, Innovative Engineering Champion, Diversity & Inclusion Coach, Director of Supplier Diversity and Environmental Sustainability, Global Account Manager of Fortune 1000 Accounts
Six Sigma certified aids in Ms. Turner producing operational excellence with safety as the 1st priority. She has been integral in various projects from supplier diversity strategic alliances, recruiting/retention, energy conservation, sku optimization, network optimization, SAP conversion, company integrations and distribution network design to new conveyer system install, and various other technology driven areas.

Ms. Turner attended Ohio University in Athens, OH earning her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology.

From Innovation to Innovative

The Business Case for a Sustainable Future

These progressive business leaders will share the innovative ways they’re tackling climate change through technical solutions to everyday concerns like energy, food, housing, and transportation. What does a sustainable food system look like in Kentucky and how do we power it with renewable energy? What is the future of housing and public transportation in Louisville and how do we provide it equitably?

These leaders will share examples of their work addressing these essential issues and the business case for implementation. Beyond a specific innovation, you’ll hear how the path from idea to application overcomes barriers to creating a more sustainable future.

PANEL SPEAKERS

Nathan Cryder has a broad range of executive and leadership experience in the business, government, non-profit, and education sectors.

In business, he is a founder or co-founder of several companies including Breakout and Activate, headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky with over 1,000 employees and 45 locations throughout the U.S. (and one in South Africa). Nathan is a founding Board member of the Kentucky Solar Energy Industry Association (KYSEIA) and the Chair of the Utility-Scale Committee.

In the non-profit sector, he was the acting Director of the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation-U.S., founded by 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Kailash Satyarthi, who has dedicated his life to ensuring children’s rights in India and globally since 1981. Nathan continues to serve on a pro-bono basis as an advisor to Mr. Satyarthi and his son, Bhuwan Ribhu, the founder and director of India Child Protection Fund.

In government, Nathan was Senior Advisor and Policy Director to Edelen Renewables founder, Adam Edelen, when he was the Kentucky State Auditor, and in education, he has taught high school and college courses in economics,, sociology, psychology, history, web design, graphic design, and video editing.
Nathan holds dual masters in diplomacy and sociology from the University of Kentucky and a B.A. in sociology from Miami (OH) University. He has a daughter and a son, and enjoys his free time traveling, reading, and writing.
AppHarvest Sustainability Manager, Nickie Cashdollar, has been integral to the company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) process supporting its founding as a public benefit corporation and its certification as a B Corp.
She recently led AppHarvest’s B Corp recertification which resulted in a 15% score improvement and released the 2021 sustainability report.
Nickie earned a Bachelor of Business Administration with an emphasis in social entrepreneurship from the University of Kentucky’s Lewis Honors College
Rob Locke, Louisville Habitat CEO, is a native of Louisville, KY and a Centre College graduate who has spent most of his career working for Habitat for Humanity. While he has done most of his work in Louisville, Rob has built Habitat houses in Eastern Kentucky, Guatemala, Tennessee, and the Philippines. He ran the construction department at Louisville Habitat for 10 years and recently completed his 16th year in the Executive position.
Louisville Habitat’s vision is "A world where everyone has a decent place to live.” Creating new affordable homes is their primary line of service but the organization also provides community development and home repair in targeted underserved neighborhoods. All of these ‘housing solutions’ have a common thread of supporting homeownership for lower income families.

As of June 2022, Habitat has built 575 homes in Louisville all sold without profit through zero interest mortgages. 120 Habitat homeowners have paid off their mortgages! Many of their homeowners earn less than 50% of area median income and 90% are people of color.

Louisville Habitat works to build homes to Energy Star standards, so their houses are affordable to LIVE IN as well as purchase. Habitat uses advanced framing techniques and 2x6 stud walls to increase R-value. They also draw every wall section to avoid waste. Louisville Habitat built Kentucky’s first LEED Platinum residential home several years ago.
Habitat in Louisville and in other parts of the state has been approached about adding solar panels to Habitat homes. The organization has been concerned about the maintenance cost and the ability to ensure system sustainability since its homeowners are lower income and much of the construction is done by volunteers. At the state level, the response has been to buy into the LG&E solar share program.

In Louisville, Habitat is partnering with the Sierra Club to install solar panels and an education monitor in our Jane and Jewell Center which hosts hundreds of volunteers and low-income homeowners for community events every year. We hope this system will educate the community in general but particularly Habitat staff and volunteers to alleviate concerns about solar maintenance which may eventually lead to solar panels on Habitat homes.
Tiffany Broyles Yost, AIA, LEED BD+C, Fitwel Ambassador
As GBBN’s Director of Sustainability and Resilience, Tiffany provides strategic leadership for sustainable design across the firm’s portfolio of projects, manages the work of the GBBN Sustainability Action Network, and spearheads educational initiatives related to resilience, well-being, and environmental design. Her work includes sustainable design on green building projects from international supertall mixed use to single story existing building renovations. Tiffany is focused on developing the low-carbon and wellness portfolio at GBBN and advancing circular economy concepts in the region.

She spent almost two decades in New York City as a designer and sustainability consultant and brings that experience to GBBN and her midwestern roots. Tiffany serves on several non-profit boards and committees including, the Greenbuild Summit Advisory Board, the Fitwel Advisory Council, the Louisville Sustainability Council, and the Green Umbrella/Cincinnati 2030 District Health Strategy Committee, among others.
She received a B. Arch from the University of Kentucky and an M. Arch Sustainable Environmental Design from the Architectural Association in London

Nickie Cashdollar, Sustainability Manager, AppHarvest

Rob Locke, CEO, Habitat for Humanity

Tiffany Broyles Yost, Director of Sustainability and Resilience, GBBN, Moderator

From Vision to Visionary

The Artist’s Vision for a Sustainable Future

With progressive business leaders developing innovative strategies to tackle climate change, we see creative technical solutions with a strong business case for implementation. Beyond the practical application of strategies, how do we address the existential and humanitarian crisis of climate change with urgency? A cadre of artists are offering provocative and daring visions for a future shaped by climate change and environmental and social justice. This panel will explore the intersection of art and sustainability as a collaborative tool for transformative change.

Our panel of local artists and curators will share examples of their work and their insights into how climate change and social injustices affect us and how art can be a tool for creating sustainable advocacy, education, and advancement. Our panelists will also discuss the opportunities and barriers to developing and implementing environmental and social justice art in Kentucky and share how art connects people to each other and nature.

PANEL SPEAKERS

Andre Kimo Stone Guess is President & CEO of Fund for the Arts, a regional arts agency, and the largest funder of the arts in the Greater Louisville region. Andre is an internationally respected leader with more than 25 years of executive experience. He served as CEO of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh, as Vice President and Producer for Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, and as Vice President of The Lincoln Foundation, Inc. in Louisville. He is also a frequent consultant, whose clients are nationally and internationally recognized foundations and organizations. Andre managed the careers of several world-class musicians including Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton, and he produced scores of concerts and music projects including a Grammy Award-winning record. He is also a writer and cultural critic with works published by USA Today, The Courier-Journal, The Root, The Grio, and ESPN’s The Undefeated. Andre studied at the University of Louisville. He has received a B.S. in Economics with a minor in Actuarial Mathematics. He is a native Louisvillian and grew up in the Smoketown neighborhood. He and his wife Cheryl have four children: Kenithia, Wynton, Kennedy, and Morgan. Andre and Cheryl are empty nesters who live in their forever home on St. James Court in Old Louisville.
Jenny Zeller is an artist and arts administrator with over 25 years of curatorial experience and cultivation of her creative practice.
As the Arts in Nature Curator at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Jenny helps fulfill the organization’s mission of connecting people to nature while promoting increased public appreciation for the arts by overseeing their 42-year established Artist in Residence program, curating special artist projects, gallery exhibitions and large-scale public art installations. Jenny stepped into this role shortly after her experience as a 2017 Artist in Residence at Bernheim.
Rebecca Norton has the sensibility of a person who works from behind the scenes, performing spectacle and illusions to reveal imperceptible tricks of perception. Her practice traverses various media and does not shy from a painter’s way of enrobing (and disrobing) the world. Her aesthetic infuses the hard-edge play of Op art with complex ground/figure relations. In her work, two or more ways of seeing become hinged. The interplay of visual alikeness and difference enhances the properties of symmetry/dissymmetry, flatness/depth, illusion/materiality, light, and color that take up both the space of her paintings and the melange of ephemera she presents sculpturally.

She received her BFA from the University of Louisville in 2004 and her MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2010. Her studio practice today includes painting, sculpture, collaboration (for example Awkward x 2), and new technology. She takes a special interest in color theory, theories of mind, mathematics, and natural phenomena. Rebecca has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her essays have been published in collections through Black Sun Lit and the Duke Franklin Humanities Institute. She has been a contributing writer for The Brooklyn Rail, Arts in Bushwick, and Abstract Critical. Rebecca lives with her husband, two kids, and cat in Louisville, KY. She is the co-curator of The Common Gallery at the fifteenTWELVE Creative Complex and co-founder of Spore Art Studio, both located in Louisville, KY.
Kristian Anderson has been the Executive Director of Louisville Visual Art for over two years and brings with him nearly 20 years experience in the arts and culture sector, most recently as Senior Policy Advisor to the Mayor of Salt Lake City. In that role, he oversaw a variety of community, operational and political projects encompassing arts and culture as well as land use, urban design, economic development and more. Prior to his mayoral appointment, Kristian was the Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and Executive Director for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries in Seattle. Anderson earned his B.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the University of Minnesota. He also holds a Masters in Museum Studies from the University of Colorado and a Certificate of Academic Museum and Gallery Leadership from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Andre Kimo Stone Guess, CEO, Fund for the Arts

Jenny Zeller, Arts in Nature Curator, Bernheim Forest

Rebecca Norton, Co-Founder, Studio Spore

Kristian Anderson, Executive Director, Louisville Visual Art

After Party!

October 6th, 5-7pm

Join us for an in-person after party at Against The Grain Smokehouse!

For every Oktoberfest beer sold, $1 will go back to the LSC. Cheers! Food will also be available for purchase. ATG offers vegan and vegetarian menu options.