Public Speaking is an important skill to learn, esecially if you want to be involved in civic engagement. In this section,you will find the tools necessary to become a better public speaker. This is the first step in making the change you want to see in your community and will allow you to engage with your peers, local community leaders, city officials, and state politicians. In addition, as the year goes on we will have many opportunities to practice these skills. Please take a look and if you have any questions or ideas on how this toolkit could be improved, please leave a comment below.

There are many tools that help you measure the environmental pollutants and food availability that impact your community. The few main tools that we use are:

1. USDA Food Atlas Mapping System

2. Feeding America - Food Insecurity Map

3. NCS ACS-ED Maps

4. EPA EJSCREEN

5. EPA AirData

6. AirNow

7. Air Now - Interactive Air Quality Map

These tools are extraordinarily useful to gather quantitative data about your community and are excellent resources to reference to in a report, presentation, or in conversation - like with a guest speaker.