Recent UEP alum Christina Schlegel, MA ’17, spent last summer as a fellow in Boston City Council President Michelle Wu’s office. According to Wu, Nina was… Read More »UEP Alum Nina Schlegel: We Need a Justice Framework for Urban Climate Action
^ Jacquie Furtado (standing, right) presents at the 2017 SmartGrowth Alliance Conference. Photo courtesy of Grow Smart MA. Since this blog launched in September 2017,… Read More »Jacquie Furtado of the MassWorks Infrastructure Program
“How can we deconstruct the dysfunctions of our economic system?” asked economist and activist Winona LaDuke. She spoke to a full theater at the Mahaiwe… Read More »Tufts New Economy Relaunches With A Radical Trip To The Berkshires
Erica Walker (MSc ’11) is the founder of Noise and the City, an organization with a mission of providing community residents with accessible and relevant noise advocacy tools. She recently released NoiseScore, a free smartphone application that allows community members to objectively and subjectively describe community noise issues and map their response in real-time. She graduated from the UEP program in 2011 with a Master of Science degree in Environmental Economics and Urban Planning, and recently graduated from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a doctorate in Environmental Health. She feels a bit hypocritical because she loves the idea of urban chickens despite knowing how loud they can be. Current UEP student Liza Burkin interviewed her via email:
Each summer, two Tufts UEP graduate students work with community partners for a 10-week fellowship through the CoRE (Co-learning/Co-education) partnership. Funded by Tisch College, fellows get hands-on experience in community planning, organizing and development while helping to extend the collaborative work between the Tufts and the community partner. Below, Sharon Cho reflects on her summer with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. Click here for our previous post on Minnie McMahon’s experience with Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts.
Read More »CoRE Summer Fellows 2017: Sharon Cho, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
images c/o Peter Chandonait Peter Chandonait (MA ’03) is a Principal Scientist in the International Health Division at Abt Associates, a Cambridge-based consultancy and research… Read More »UEP Alum Peter Chandonait Wins USAID Grand Prize for Innovative Work Fighting Malaria
Immigration has come to the forefront of our national dialogue as policymakers weigh decisions that may upend and jeopardize the lives of millions of people… Read More »UEP Student Panel on Policy and Planning for Immigrant Communities Digs Deep Into Personal and Professional Stories
UEP alum (MA ’15) and local artist Cara Foster Karim is wrapping up work on an oil painting of UEP’s HQ – the “Brown House” at 97… Read More »UEP Alum Cara Foster Karim Paints the Brown House
On Wednesday, September 20th, Grassroots International hosted a reading and panel discussion with authors of a new book from Food First, entitled Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons in the United States. Held at the Tufts Health Sciences Campus, the event was co-sponsored in part by the Tufts Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy (UEP) program, Friedman Justice League, and Friedman Student Council. Current UEP/AFE dual degree student Kathleen Nay reflects on what she learned.
Read More »On the Present, Past, and the Struggle for Land Justice