These letters are going out to eight high school students in Roanoke. Over the next 10 months, they, with the support of Virginia Tech Urban and Regional Planning students, will be creating plans to build community capacity to deal with the effects of rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA.

Just back from NSF hq for the kickoff event for our CIVIC Innovation award. This program is doing wonders to legitimize participatory action research (the number of times I've been asked how the kind of research I do counts as "research"! 😡). Now can say, NSF gave us $1M to do it! It's RESEARCH

My students and I hosted a workshop for a resident activist group trying to save an urban forest from dev't. We put together a series of activities meant to promote authentic engagement through storytelling. They said this was the 1st time they actually felt heard and listened to by outsiders. 🤗