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Why the Essence of Equity-Centered Work Is Organizational Change — Episode 093

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

He previously served as the National Park Service’s Deputy Director from 2008-2013, and was a long-time employee of the City of Seattle, where he worked on social justice issues, access to nature and other critical work. How he felt after attending the March on Washington in 1963 and witnessing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. We did this in 2008 or 2009. I was involved in helping "to save" that area c. Rumsey Underground: Arts. An arts plan needs to be developed.