2025 Community Fellows Final Presentations and Celebration

This event is open to the public

Speakers:

Jose Coronado-Flores,  Ness Perry and  Xavier Brown

UEC Community Fellows
 

Please join the Urban Equity Collaborative for the 2025 Community Fellows Final Presentations and Celebration. 

This semester, the 2025 cohort of the UEC Community Fellows Program includes José Coronado-Flores, Solar Panel Installation Technician and former Climate Research and Policy Analyst at CASA, Ness Perry, State Engagement Lead at Envoy Public Labs and former Advocacy Specialist at LEDC, and Xavier Brown, Founder of Soilful City, Co-founder of Black Dirt Farm Collective, and the Director of the UDC Community to Career Academy and the Ambassador for the Anacostia. The three fellows engaged in interdisciplinary dialogues, workshops, and research to address the multiple and compounding forms of dispossession and displacement impacting their communities. Particularly, the fellows focused on the climate crisis and the dispossession and displacement that occurs in marginalized communities as a result. For this event, the three fellows will present on their projects with the UEC and answer questions.

Kindly RSVP if you are able to attend. Refreshments will be served! While we welcome folks to stay for the entirety of the event, we understand that schedules may not allow that. Please feel free to join for part of the event and see the schedule below to coordinate. Please come out to support the Community Fellows’ impressive work!

In solidarity,
The Urban Equity Collaborative

SCHEDULE:

12:00 p.m. - 12:20 p.m.  |  Welcome 

12:20 p.m. - 1:05 p.m. | José Coronado-Flores, “Polluting Infrastructure and Our Addiction to Convenience.”| 

1:05 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.  |  Ness Perry, “Making a Just Transition: Understanding Climate Displacement Risk and Community Response in South Phoenix.”

1:55 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.  |  Xavier Brown, “Soil 2 Soul: Reestablishing Ubuntu.”