The night before I wrote this post, I got a present. The present was that the National Geographic website dropped some of the HELOC residential security maps, commonly known in the profession as the redlining maps, into an article, highlighting the amazing work done by the Mapping Inequality Project. If you haven’t already, go to that […]
Hey folks! I’ve just gotten in from a conference day where I’ve been encouraged to make a leap into another step in my business and it just so happens on another Friday night like this in October, six years ago, I made another major leap and put The Black Urbanist out into the world. Quite […]
I un-ironically wear a raspberry beret sometimes in the winter, and yes, I do throw it up in the air and tell the world that I’m going to make it after all. I was already cliche Minneapolis before I even set foot there the first time. Two of my favorite speaking opportunities have been in the […]
This post is really long overdue and I was pushed to write it after seeing a couple of things on my timeline, as well as sorting out my thoughts as I make the move to Washington, DC from Kansas City. I’ve also been trying to be more literary in how I post here and less reactionary. […]
The Black Urbanist Radio Show takes this site’s goals of presenting my thoughts on design, urban planning, transportation, architecture and life as black woman in the modern world, and brings in other voices who have opinions on spaces and places throughout the Black/African Diaspora. Some weeks will just be an interview. Other weeks and interview […]
My next book A Black Urbanist Journey: Black Urbanist Journey: Wisdom, Lessons and Models from Ten Years as The Black Urbanist is coming in October of 2020. In the meantime, subscribe to my newsletter to learn more about the book and me and bookmark this page for updates as we get closer to the release […]
Show your support! Tell the world who you are. Oh and you can dabble in my patterned merchandise here too. For now my canvas tote and basic white t-shirts. Coming soon, other cool objects, courses, guides and yes a paperback version of A Black Urbanist! I selected Print All Over Me for the following items […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly. I’m Kristen Jeffers and I’m making this weekly digital newsletter to share my Black, Spiritual, Diasporic North Carolinian, Working/Lower Middle-Class, Educated, Queer, CisFemme thoughts on how places and communities work. Think of this as my weekly column, sitting on your proverbial print paper’s editorial page or as so many […]
This page will be home to all open positions, fellowship opportunities and scholarships of which I am aware. I used to send all this out in my email, but I wanted to create a more unique platform for jobs in the industry, one that emphasizes fair disclosure of salary ranges and transparency on what candidates […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly. I’m Kristen Jeffers and I’m making this weekly digital newsletter to share my Black, Spiritual, Diasporic North Carolinian, Working/Lower Middle-Class, Educated, Queer, CisFemme thoughts on how places and communities work. Think of this as my weekly column, sitting on your proverbial print paper’s editorial page or as so many […]
I have always owed a great debt to the work of Sara Zewde, especially the usage of the term black urbanist and talking about black urbanism. Zewde is currently a principal at Asakura Robinson a designer at the Seattle-based firm GGN and in 2010, published her MIT graduate thesis, Theory, place, and opportunity: black urbanism as a […]
Hello From Where it All Began, But The End of this Journey… Also known as my teen-hood home (but it’s 9 p.m. Monday so I’m technically back in Baltimore). I thought I’d be writing this from the plane home from my excellent and life-changing speaking tour and you’d get this on Wednesday the 25th. And I planned on […]
Dr. Ezike and I started our conversation with the usual “elevator pitch” introduction, then because I could, I wanted to talk about N.C. State University, where we both did our undergraduate studies, because I could and because this episode is coming out on the eve of me attending my cousin’s commencement ceremony from N.C. State, […]
It’s time again for my weekly email. As it went out wrong again, I’m including it here on the blog, plus, if you scroll down, I’ve included a small note on my election day experience so far. Here’s the email: I’m sure you noticed that my house, my virtual house that is, has been under […]
