Additionally, Lisa is supporting ’s continual effort to share what they learn through their wide range of work with governmental and non-profit organization to increase the impact of our work, and increased choice for residents. These efforts bring increased education and resources to low-income communities as they participate in local planning activities, and advocate for greater engagement, equity, and partnership in area decision making. Lisa brings planning and policy experience to many of efforts, including our multi-year cross-partner efforts in the Lower Rio Grande Valley LUCHA, Unidos por RGV, and RAPIDO. Through a process of informing, empowers communities to better advocate for the resources their communities need. Lisa is heading policy and community capacity building initiatives of. Through the website individuals can nominate their local hero and learn more about the heroes of prior editions.Ībout Lisa: Lisa Neergaard is a Senior Policy Associate at buildingcommunityWORKSHOP.
2015 also brought the incorporation of community nominated heroes, and creation of at. The following year, bcHEROES was expanded to include other geographies in which works - Houston and the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The 1st edition of bcHEROES highlighted 25 Dallas heroes both past and present, distributed across the city on MLK Day. So often we focus on honoring the heroes of the past bcHEROES gives us an opportunity to talk about our present day heroes, the ones working to make our communities the places we love. Inspired by sports cards, we created bcHEROES to be a tangible, fun, and collectable packs of cards that recognize and honor local heroes, highlight the efforts of under-recognized local heroes, and promote individuals getting involved with local causes they care about. In 2014, buildingcommunityWORKSHOP wanted a fun way to celebrate local advocates and neighborhood leaders that exemplified the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr and MLK Day of Service. Lisa Neergaard, Senior Policy Associate at bcWORKSHOP She received a BS in Interior Design from Indiana University and an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. A Baltimore resident since 1993, she has been involved in many of the city’s largest historic building rehabilitations, including the American Can Company, Silo Point and Tide Point. Through the work, Jen also shares her passion for people who care deeply for the places where they live and for the role of public space in making great cities. At NDC, she directs all aspects of the center’s operations including staff, programs, outreach, and fundraising. The presentation will share how a deep reading of the built environment can support the practice of public interest design.Ībout Jennifer: Jennifer Goold joined the Neighborhood Design Center in 2012 after more than a decade of work in cultural resources management, historic preservation, development and planning. In this preliminary phase of work we will define and document some of the most prevalent tactics in the two Baltimore neighborhoods. The project looks at data from the census and the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicator Alliance, secondary sources on the great migration and redlining practices, development history via Sanborn Maps and Baltimore’s Open Data, photographs, and maps inclusionary, exclusionary, and resistance tactics. Additionally, the project will investigate how people’s resistance the inclusionary or exclusionary tactics are visible within the built environment. Goold is working with seminar students at Morgan State’s Graduate School of Architecture to document the built environment in Bolton Hill and Upton communities, the government and business structures that created segregated neighborhoods in Baltimore City (which has a majority black population), and the visible features that signal welcome or exclusion to people crossing neighborhood lines or enabling or suppressing cultural or economic practices. Jennifer Goold, Executive Director of The Neighborhood Design Center (Baltimore, MD), will present an investigation of the physical characteristics of two adjacent Baltimore Neighborhoods under the framework of Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, and Georgeen Theodore’s The Arsenal of Exclusion/Inclusion: 101 Things that Open and Close the City (New York: Actar, 2017). Jennifer Goold, Executive Director of The Neighborhood Design Center 10:15am, Friday: The Better to See You With
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