Voices of the People

Krista Schyler

The degradation that’s happened historically to this river parallels the degradation that has happened to the human community.

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Krista Schyler

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Women's Environmental Leadership (WEL)

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In March of 2018, Urban Waterways launched Women’s Environmental Leadership (WEL) inspired by the work of women in the various…

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Connected by Design

Connected by Design

Connected by Design

Katrina Lashley

Twenty years ago, I started a journey that would end at the banks of the Anacostia River. My voyage began when my friend Kaitlin introduced me to environmental issues. In my quest to paddle the shores of a new world unknown to…

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My Waterfront Park Story

My Waterfront Park Story

My Waterfront Park Story

Louisville Waterfront Development Corporation

As a child, I grew up across the street from the small segregated “black” park, the 61-acre Chickasaw Park established in 1923 for the use of the black community in a segregated neighborhood. It was just down the street from the whites-only Shawnee Park, which was well over 300 acres. Both are Olmsted parks which border the Ohio River. Chickasaw…

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Teachers When Necessary

Teachers When Necessary

Teachers When Necessary

Robert Garcia

We had just launched The City Project when Erica Flores Baltodano first started working with us as a UC Berkeley law student. We were developing creative legal and organizing strategies to help Black, Latino, and low-income people fight for equal access to healthy parks, schools, and recreation. After she worked on litigation to help foster children, I asked her to return the following summer to work on green justice. It…

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