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Back to SearchThe Bottom-Up Revolution Is…Unexpected Allies Fighting a Highway Expansion Project
Episode 96
In this special edition of The Bottom-Up Revolution, recorded last week at the 2024 National Gathering, we have a double interview with Susan Graham and Ally Smither. Graham and Smither are part of a…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Brian Boland: Reclaiming Land From Urban Highways
Episode 95
Brian Boland is a native of Cincinnati and the founder of Bridge Forward Cincinnati, an advocacy group working to reclaim 19 acres of city land from urban highways. He has a master’s degree in Urban …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Christian Gray: Alleviating Neighborhood Poverty at a Root Level
Episode 94
Christian Gray is a native of Southern California, but now resides in Omaha, Nebraska, with his family, where he is the co-executive director of inCOMMON Community Development, an organization that a…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Sara Joy Proppe: Helping Churches Use Placemaking To Connect With the Community
Episode 93
Sara Joy Proppe is a native of Texas, but lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has a degree in urban planning, and has over a decade of professional experience and managing private real estate developme…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen: A Grassroots Community Advocate
Episode 92
Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen is a passionate community organizer in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. With extensive experience in providing reports and educational materials on community and economic dev…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Maddy Novich: Not Your Typical Bike Activist!
Episode 91
Maddy Novich is a criminal justice professor at Manhattan College, a mom of three, and an Instagram influencer living in New York City—you might know her as @cargobikemomma. Novich fell in love with …
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Deatra Kemp: Helping First-Time Homebuyers Realize Their Dreams
Episode 90
Deatra Kemp is a native of Milwaukee with a long background in the real estate industry. She is passionate about helping close the home ownership gap within her city's Black and Hispanic communities.…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Adam Greenfield and Miriam Schoenfield: Fighting Freeway Widening in Austin
Episode 89
On this week’s episode, we’ve got a special double interview with Adam Greenfield and Miriam Schoenfield, who are both freeway fighters based in Austin, Texas. Greenfield is a transportation and land…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Jessica Peacock: Fighting for a Family-Owned Grocery Store
Episode 88
Jessica Peacock is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, and for the past four years, she’s been fighting to reopen her great-grandparents’ neighborhood grocery store in the Walnut Terrace neighborhoo…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Jon Jon Wesolowski: Chattanooga Urbanist Society
Episode 87
Today’s Bottom-Up Revolution guest is Jon Jon Wesolowski, who is an old friend of host Tiffany Owens Reed. Wesolowski lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with his wife and two kids and works full time i…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago