Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Energy Czar Carol Browner to Visit Green Job Training Center
For Immediate Release
April 9, 2009
Contact
Ricci Graham
(510) 763-0370
Oakland – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) and Ms. Carol Browner, the assistant to President Obama for Energy and Climate Change, will tour the Cypress Mandela Training Center located at 2229 Poplar Street, Oakland on Friday, April 10, 2009. The hour-long tour will begin at 11:30 a.m.
Congresswoman Lee offered to host this tour after Ms. Browner expressed interest in visiting Cypress Mandela Training Center as part of her effort to gain greater awareness of existing green job programs throughout the country. Community leaders and program developers who have worked to expand the emergent green jobs market will provide Congresswoman Lee and Ms. Browner with an brief overview of their efforts to develop green jobs and green technologies throughout the 9th Congressional District.
During the tour, Congresswoman Lee and Ms. Browner will also meet with students and instructors at the Cypress Mandela Training Center, along with representatives from the Green Job Corps, including Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Green For All.
The press is invited to join Congresswoman Lee and Ms. Browner on this hour-long tour.
Who: Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Energy Czar Carol Browner
What: To tour the Cypress Mandela Training Center with Energy Czar Carol Browner
When: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Friday, April 10, 2009
Where: 2229 Poplar Street at West Grand Avenue in Oakland
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