Join us for the second discussion in our Jane Jacobs Lecture series exploring the possibilities for post-covid cities. This panel discussion explores the role of Main Streets through Mindy Thompson Fullilove’s “Stroll and Scroll” technique, highlighted in her 2020 book, Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All.
Panelists are Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Molly Rose Kaufman, Jacqueline Castaneda and Aditi Nair. This session is moderated by Nupur Chaudhury.
Space is limited but the event will be recorded and available on our website and YouTube channel afterwards.
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Panelists
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, LFAPA, Hon AIA, is a social psychiatrist and professor of urban policy and health at The New School. She has published over 100 scientific papers and eight books. among them Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, and Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities. She is co-author, with Hannah L. F. Cooper, of From Enforcers to Guardians: A public health primer on ending police violence, issued by Johns Hopkins University Press in January 2020. Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All, was released by New Village Press in September 2020.
Jacqueline Castaneda is a researcher and urban strategist specializing in urban design, infrastructures and public policy. She has an academic background in architecture and a master’s degree in Design and Urban Ecologies at Parsons School of Design, The New School. She worked as a strategist and designer for different institutions of the Mexican government, in the international firms MIC Mobility in Chain (Italy) and Carlo Ratti Associati (Italy), and as a researcher at Parsons School of Design (United States). Her practice focuses on the design and opening of strategies, processes, projects and new participatory methodologies for the development of balanced, equitable and fair communities and territories. She involves feminist urbanism through the planning, design, and production of public spaces and infrastructures that support people’s daily lives. Currently her interest is to explore the intersection of spatial justice and women’s bodies. She also experiments with fermentation processes as a vehicle for freedom and food sovereignty.
Molly Rose Kaufman is the co-director and provost of the University of Orange, a free school of urbanism in Orange, New Jersey. UofO builds collective capacity for our friends, neighbors, and partners to cultivate a just and equitable city. UofO offers free courses, works in local coalitions to promote education across the lifecycle, and advocates for equity in urban planning. Molly co-founded the organization in 2008 alongside family members, local activists and community leaders. She serves as a member of the board of the Jersey City Public Library and as board chair of the World Fellowship Center. She teaches in a social justice and civic engagement program at Eugene Lang College.
Aditi Nair, a designer at University of Orange and senior specialist, community practice and strategy at Habitat International, is an urban planner and architect with more than six years of experience focusing on stakeholder collaboration in the planning and development of sustainable housing solutions that reflect asset-based community development and centers social justice. Aditi advocates equitable housing solutions and uses design thinking to co-create people-based solutions embedded in inclusion, diversity, and economic equity.
Moderator
Nupur Chaudhury is a public health urbanist who looks at cities, communities and connections through a grassroots lens. A bridge builder and translator in the fields of urban planning and public health, she has developed and implemented strategies to support residents, communities, and neighborhoods challenge power structures to build just, strong, and equitable cities. She has led coalition building efforts after Superstorm Sandy, redeveloped power structures in villages in India, and developed a citizen planning institute for public housing residents in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Her work spans the non profit, philanthropic and governmental systems, and has been featured in the American Journal of Public Health, CityLab, National Public Radio, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
She is a member of the American Planning Association, the American Public Health Association, an Urban Design Forum’s Forefront Fellow, a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow, board member of the Center for the Living City, and past board member of University of Orange, and Made in Brownsville (now Youth Design Center). A founding director of the Center for Health Equity, housed at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, she holds degrees from Columbia University (Masters in Public Health), New York University (Masters in Urban Planning), and Bryn Mawr College (BA in Growth and Structure of Cities).