EPISODE 15: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID-19
How are organizations engaging with community during a pandemic? How can community groups think creatively in the way they reach out to residents both virtually and in person? We’ll chat with two leaders in this space, Sandra Clark, VP for News and Civic Dialogue of WHYY and Maitreyi Roy, Executive Director of Bartram’s Garden about the what they are seeing and learning about community engagement during this dynamic time.
Episode Resources
Provided by Guests
- Police reimagined: The future of public safety
- A recent blog post from one of the high school interns at Sankofa Community Farm about their work
- Maitreyi participating in the ecoWURD Earth Day summit on WURD Radio
- Historian Sharece Blakney’s current research about the Black history of our Kingsessing neighborhood
- Maitreyi and our director of public programs, Aseel Rasheed, featured in a recent WHYY article about racial equity in environmental organizations
- An overview of the Garden’s history and our neighborhood connections
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“Coast to Coast” is a weekly Knight Foundation show. Hosted Lilly Weinberg, Knight director in the Community and National Initiatives program, the program will take a weekly deep dive into cities and the important ideas and insights that move them forward.
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