Sign Up Today — Health on the Plains Coffee Hour, Featuring Tony Pipa

July 30

Zoom

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Keep the momentum going with the second session of the Health on the Plains Coffee Hour series, featuring Tony Pipa, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Sustainable Development. 

This informal, virtual gathering will explore how local leaders and organizations are driving positive change, and what it takes to build resilient, thriving rural communities. Bring your questions, your coffee, and your curiosity! 

📅 Wednesday, July 30
🕙 10:00–11:00 a.m. CDT
📍Zoom 

Join the Conversation!

Featured Speaker

Tony Pipa, Senior Fellow, Center for Sustainable Development, The Brookings Institution

Tony Pipa is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution. Pipa launched and leads the Reimagining Rural Policy initiative and hosts the award-winning Reimagine Rural podcast. Pipa came to Brookings after serving in senior roles both at USAID and the State Department, where he led the U.S. at the U.N. during the intergovernmental negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals. That global work built upon a record of philanthropic leadership on community and economic development in the U.S., where he led a private foundation in North Carolina and helped launch the Foundation for Louisiana after hurricane Katrina. Pipa grew up in rural Elysburg, Pennsylvania, attended Stanford University, graduated from Duke University, and earned a master of public administration at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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