by Renee Mazurek | Mar 14, 2023 | General Resources, Network Blog
Maria De Jesus Housing Justice Organizer Ironbound Community Corporation Recorded on February 14th, 2023, Renée Mazurek, Resilient Communities Manager for River Network and team member of the Urban Waters Learning Network, interviews Maria De Jesus,...
by Renee Mazurek | Mar 6, 2023 | General Resources, Network Blog
How the Federal Government Got There The early days of the urban environmental movement mostly excluded people of color and low-income residents who were actually exposed the most to pollution. Movements, like the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968, drew national...
by Renee Mazurek | Jan 11, 2023 | General Resources, Network Blog
On December 8, 2022, the Urban Waters Learning Network (UWLN) Equitable Development and Anti-Displacement Collaborative hosted a learning session entitled, Exploring the Intersections between Environmental Justice and Equitable Development in Infrastructure...
by Renee Mazurek | Jul 27, 2021 | Network Blog
Alicia Smith Executive Director Junction Coalition Alicia Smith is a proud native of Detroit, Michigan, and mother of three. She and her family currently reside in Toledo, Ohio, where Alicia serves as the Executive Director for Junction Coalition. She...
by Renee Mazurek | May 5, 2021 | Network Blog
Daniel Joseph Wiley Housing Justice Program and Policy Manager Ironbound Community Corporation The Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC), a member of the Urban Waters Learning Network since 2012, is a model example of an...
by Maria Brodine | Feb 9, 2021 | Network Blog
Since the inception of the Urban Waters programs, including the Urban Waters Federal Partnership, ten years ago, Urban Waters practitioners have been making a splash in the environmental sector, pioneering critical initiatives in racial equity, environmental justice,...
by Aditya Nochur | Aug 24, 2020 | Network Blog
This year’s River Rally conference may have been virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the change in format did not preclude strong participation from Groundwork Trusts—a network of community-based organizations supported by the national non-profit Groundwork...
by Maria Brodine | Sep 16, 2019 | General Resources, Network Blog
I was never a pool kid. I learned how to search for desert hot springs by following the smell of sulfur, swam in potholes in rapidly flowing streams, frolicked in the shallow reaches of the Pacific. My childhood was haunted not by monsters under the bed, but by...
by Aditya Nochur | Aug 29, 2019 | Network Blog
This post was re-blogged from Groundwork USA, and originally published on August 22, 2019. “You used to be able to tell what dye the plant was processing by the color of the river that day,” Lesly Melendez told us as we stood at the site of a former commercial...
by Renee Mazurek | Jul 31, 2019 | General Resources, Network Blog
Racism exists. This was the starting point for the Urban Waters Learning Forum workshop—Addressing Racial Equity in Environmental Spaces—held on Friday, June 21, in Cleveland, OH. Nearly 40 people gathered in a conference room in the Westin Downtown Cleveland for a...
