I recently attended two half-day working sessions of the Evanston Environmental Justice (EJ) Coalition. The sessions were designed to inform a strategy for this new organization as it moves into 2026. I was geeked for a number of reasons. This was front-row observation of community coalition building with folks who (unlike me) have deep experience … Continue reading Three ways of framing the environmental justice problem, by the folks who know.

My former teaching partner and friend Teresa Torres is off on a new venture - the Just Now Possible podcast, where Teresa takes a dive deep with folks who use AI as part of the digital products they design and build. A recent episode focused on ZenCity, which provides an AI-supported technology platform to help … Continue reading What I learned about paying attention to details in community listening. From an AI product team.

Last night I attended the 4th (and final) workshop that is part of Evanston's Environmental Equity Investigation (EEI). (See past post about EEI: The limitation of relying on a single style of community meetings) I'm thinking about this event in terms of lessons to be learned for future community engagement activities. In all, the final workshop … Continue reading “If this were in place, what would it do for you?”