Equity in Nature: Transforming Neglected Urban Land in Baltimore into Bliss Meadows - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Description

US cities are becoming greener, but many communities are being left behind. This session will share lessons on community-led design from Nature Sacred and the evolution of Baltimore's Bliss Meadows, 10 formerly neglected acres being transformed by and for a predominantly Black community.

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Learning Objectives:

• Keys to cross-cultural nature-based collaboration in an era of racial reckoning
• Lessons learned from 25 years of community-rooted charrette-driven design
• Community-driven and centered greening — creating fruitful collaborations when community is client
• How to build broad and diverse coalitions for large community-driven projects

Speaker(s):

• Alden Stoner, CEO, Nature Sacred
• Vernon Hustead, ASLA, President, Hustead Landscape Architecture
• Atiya Wells, BSN, RN, Executive Director, Backyard Basecamp