Preservation Buffalo Niagara and the East Side Parkways Coalition present
Healing Communities by Removing Highways
What’s next for the Humboldt Parkway Restoration Project?
Jennifer Roberts
Environmental racism and equity in access to urban greenways
John Norquist
How highway removal positively impacted Milwaukee
Questions and Answers
- JOHN NORQUIST: Four-term mayor and acclaimed author John Norquist will speak about how highway removal positively impacted Milwaukee.
- DR. JENNIFER ROBERTS: Buffalo-native, Doctor of Kinesiology, and Founder/Director of the Public Health Outcomes & Effects of the Built Environment (PHOEBE) Laboratory at UMD Dr. Jennifer Roberts will speak on the topics of environmental racism and equity in access to urban greenways.
- LANESSA OWENS-CHAPLIN: Director of The Racial Justice Center for NYCLUNYCLU New York Civil Liberties Union The NYCLU is the state affiliate of the ACLU. We fight for a New York where everyone lives with dignity, liberty, justice, and equality. We advance civil rights and civil liberties through an expert mix of litigation, policy advocacy, field organizing, and strategic communications. Our work is informed by the insights of our communities and coalitions, and is powered by our supporters., Attorney Lanessa Owens-Chaplin will speak on strategies used in Syracuse to remove the I-81 expressway. (Ms. Owens-Chaplin was unable to participate in the webinar).
