In honor of its 20th anniversary, this webinar will revisit Dr. Mindy Fullilove’s book Root Shock to reckon with the past and reimagine how to support communities facing displacement today.
Between 1949 – 1973, 2,532 federal urban renewal projects were carried out in 993 US cities. Seventy-five percent of the people displaced were people of color, leading to James Baldwin’s famous remark, “Urban renewal is Negro removal.” In honor of the 20 th anniversary of Dr. Mindy Fullilove’s book Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About it, this webinar will revisit the importance of understanding the social and cultural impacts of neighborhood disruption and the displacement of communities of color that has occurred since the federal urban renewal projects.
In this webinar, Dr. Mindy Fullilove will engage in conversation with community development practitioners to discuss how the learnings from Root Shock can help us move towards more sustainable and democratic communities. The path forward must include a reckoning with our past as well as taking up the tasks of reweaving the social fabric and reknitting our physical spaces. Join Molly Rose Kaufman at the University of Orange, Terri Baltimore at the Hill District and Evelyn Burnett at ThirdSpace Action Lab in an engaging conversation around how understanding the history of community displacement and its impacts on neighborhoods’ physical, psychological, cultural and economic well-being can help us navigate the pressures that cities are facing across the country and the world.
This webinar is sponsored by The Kresge Foundation.
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Speakers:
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, DLFAPA, Hon AIA
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, is a social psychiatrist and the Helen and Robert Fullilove of Community Health at the University of Orange. Since 1986, she has conducted research on AIDS and other epidemics of poor communities. with a special interest in the relationship between the collapse of communities and decline in health. She has published over 100 scientific papers and eight books. Among her books are the highly regarded Urban Restoration Trilogy, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities and Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All. She holds two honorary doctorates and is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. In the Fall of 2023, she delivered the Flexner Lectures at Bryn Mawr College based on her new research and forthcoming book on the “Tao of K-drama.”
Molly Rose Kaufman
Molly Rose Kaufman is the Cofounder and Executive Director of the University of Orange, a 16- year-old free people’s university dedicated to restoration and recovery through learning and connection. Prior to the launch of UofO, she worked as a journalist and youth media producer. As a popular educator and facilitator, Molly has led workshops and facilitated community processes in a variety of settings. Her team has supported community engagement on neighborhood plans and worked with grassroots organizations to cultivate place-based community organizing strategies. In addition to her work at UofO, Molly teaches in the Freedom Scholars Program at the New School University.
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Terri Baltimore
Terri Baltimore is a graduate of Duquesne University and has over 30 years of experience working in the non-profit sector. She is a "tour guide" introducing national, international, and local visitors to the Historic Hill District, one of Pittsburgh's storied African American
neighborhoods. Past projects include: The Greenprint, the Hill District's award-winning green plan, the development of August Wilson Park, The Dot Talley Center and public art projects.
Previous affiliations include: the Ujamaa Collective, the August Wilson House, Leadership Pittsburgh, Inc. and Inaugural Pathways Community Fellow at the Center for Engaged Teaching and Research, Duquesne University.
Evelyn Burnett
Evelyn Burnett is Co-founder + CEO ThirdSpace Action Lab (TSAL) and ThirdSpace Reading Room (TSRR) headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to TSAL, Evelyn served as Vice President, Economic Opportunity at Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, Associate Director for Program Strategies with Admiral Center at Living Cities, project director in the city of Cleveland’s Office of Sustainability, and as a 2007-2008 Cleveland Executive (Coro) Fellow. Evelyn is a 2022 Aspen Institute Ideas Fellow, Unreasonable Group Mentor, 2018 German Marshall Fellow and sits on the board of several organizations throughout Northeast Ohio and nationally including ioby (In Our Back Yards) + RidAll Green Partnership. Evelyn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Organizational Communications with a double minor in Sales & Marketing and Dance from The University of Akron during which time she studied abroad in Ghana, Africa; and a master’s degree in Public Administration from The University of Akron.