We are back to the original program on my email. However, I’m still going to paste them here as posts, so you can get a taste of what I email to my subscribers and you can keep up with me on a weekly basis. And unlike in email, all the links are hot! And there […]
During my time on campus, placemaking became more than a fantasy. It was ingrained. Let’s be honest here; if we think about how much we walked, shared things, and did all of our major business within a small set of buildings and blocks, we should all have at least some good nostalgia. In fact, I’ll […]
My (late) Black North Carolinian dad was a key influence in me being interested in the city. We used to bike around our working-class neighborhood, walk to the neighborhood ballpark and go downtown to all the festivals. He also took me to more school buildings than I would care to share. My Black North Carolinian mom […]
It’s time for my weekly email! A few weeks ago, I decided to move my email over to a new provider, InfusionSoft. In addition, I decided that since I’m doing this blog and other parts of Kristen Jeffers Media full-time right now, there’s no reason why I can’t send you guys a letter every week. […]
Kristen Jeffers writing at Union Station in Kansas City, MO, Spring 2016 Have you ever wondered how a person becomes involved in the world of placemaking and development as a career? Is it just people buying up properties to manage and flip? Is it just people being city planners, working in their city’s zoning or […]
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 […]
It’s my pleasure this episode to present the conversation I had back in the early winter with LaKeisha Henderson of Bike and Brunch Tours. As I said on the audio, we met thanks to the power of the internet and since then, we’ve worked on helping each other out as much as we can to take […]
It’s my pleasure this episode to present the conversation I had back in the early winter with LaKeisha Henderson of Bike and Brunch Tours. As I said on the audio, we met thanks to the power of the internet and since then, we’ve worked on helping each other out as much as we can to take […]
Well, I’ve been home in Greensboro for a few hours now and really, just marinating on what I learned. From the power of seeing Nikki Giovanni in the flesh and feeling a kindred spirit. Also, getting the question answered on how she drives inspiration from being in a place like the Roanoke Valley. From watching […]
Kristen Jeffers writing at Union Station in Kansas City, MO, Spring 2016 Have you ever wondered how a person becomes involved in the world of placemaking and development as a career? Is it just people buying up properties to manage and flip? Is it just people being city planners, working in their city’s zoning or […]
This episode I traveled to sit on the stoop of Stoop Law, Ari Theresa’s community-based law firm. In this episode, we discussed his recent newsworthy turn, what kind of wealth communities really have, overcoming our childhood boredom and what he will always rep about being from D.C. Learn more about Stoop Law at www.stooplaw.com and […]
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 for my weekly email! A few weeks ago, I decided to move my email over to a new provider, InfusionSoft. In addition, I decided that since I’m doing this blog and other parts of Kristen Jeffers Media full-time right now, there’s no reason why I can’t send you guys a letter every week. […]
Join me this episode as I talk with another Baltimore friend, Taffy Gwitira, on food justice, transportation justice and real life on the African continent. And, yes, there are Wakandan elements to the actual continent of Africa and there have been for a while. Learn more about the co-working space where I’m a resident (as of April […]
