2022 VIRTUAL
SIGNATURE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

8:45-9:00am

OPEN ROOM - EXHIBITOR SHOWCASE

9:00-11:30am

MORNING PLENARY SESSION

Opening Remarks from ABC Leaders

Jerome Underwood,  

Brad Rye 

Libation & Land Acknowledgement

Michael Campbell, North Star Rites of Passage LLC

Ronalyn Pollack, Center for Dispute Settlement

Presenting Sponsor Remarks - M&T Bank 

Dan Burns

Senior Vice President/Rochester Regional President

Remarks

Malik Evans

Mayor, City of Rochester

Adam Bello

County Executive, Monroe County, NY

OPENING KEYNOTE

Simeon Banister

North Star Coalition on an Inclusive Recovery

BANKING EXECUTIVE PANEL:

“Greenlining: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap”

One of the primary ways to close the racial wealth gap is to ensure the accessibility of mortgage financing to people who have and continue to denied these opportunities. The Greenlining Panel will encompass a discussion of the commitments being made by 4 of our regional banks to make mortgages accessible to marginalized people and communities. This is a deliberate attempt to begin closing the racial wealth gap and moving us closer to economic justice.

Panel Experts

• • Faheem Mashood, ESL
• • Martin Birmingham, Five Star Bank
• • Dan Burns  M & T Bank
• • Phil Muscato, KeyBank

LUNCH BREAK 

12:45-1:00pm

OPEN ROOM - EXHIBITOR SHOWCASE

1:00-3:00pm

AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION

PANEL DISCUSSION

“Maternal Justice – Birthing the Health of a People” - Real Data.  Real Lives.  Real Solutions.

Panel Experts

• • Dr. Linda Clark, Common Ground Health
• • Sherita Bullock, Healthy Baby Network
• • Dr. Gina Cuyler, Excellus BCBS
• • Dr. Tracy Webber, University of Rochester Medical Center

Panel Experts

• • Dr. Yvette Conyers, Rochester Black Nurses Association
• • Jacqui Lindsey, Healthy Baby Network
• • Senator Samra Brouk
• • Assemblymember Harry Bronson

3:00pm

Jerome Underwood

President & CEO

Action for a Better Community, Inc.

8:45-9:00am

OPEN ROOM - EXHIBITOR SHOWCASE

9:00-11:45am

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

Opening Remarks from ABC Leaders

Jerome Underwood

President & CEO

Action for a Better Community, Inc.

Libation & Land Acknowledgement

Remarks and Keynote Introduction

Dr. Dalitso Sulamoyo

Board Chair, National Community Action Partnership

OPENING KEYNOTE

Professor PLO Lumumba

Founder and Chairman of The PLO Lumumba Foundation

PANEL DISCUSSION:

“Funding Economic Development in Marginalized Communities”

The history of Rochester’s poverty is quite compelling. The “how” of “how we got here” must be taken into consideration as we strategize our way to equity. There has been an historic and current drain of economic resources away from the City, resulting in the concentrated poverty we are experiencing. This panel (Parts I and II) will discuss reversing this trend as a means towards economic justice.

Panel Experts

• • Miguel Melendez, City Council Member
• • Willie Lightfoot, City Council Member
• • Mary Lupien, City Council Member
• • George J. Hebert, Monroe County Legislator
• • Howard Maffucci, Monroe County Legislator 

Panel Experts

• • Cynthia Elliott, RCSD Commissioner
• • Beatriz LeBron, RCSD Commissioner
• • Ricardo Adams, RCSD Commissioner
• • Michael Patterson, City Council Member
• • Mitch Gruber, City Council Member

Jerome Underwood

President & CEO

Action for a Better Community, Inc.