Community Stewardship and Ownership Panel Series
Session #1: Community Ownership + Stewardship Defined + In Motion (02/23/2024)
Panelists:
Rabeya Sen (Director of Policy at Esperanza Community Housing Corporation)
Yessica X. Holguin (Executive Director of Center for Community Wealth Building)
1:18 - Opening Ceremony
5:26 - Introduce NERA & Community Ownership & Stewardship Table
11:11 - Story of Land
19:30 - Panelist Introduction
21:30 - Panel discussion: Please describe how your organization defines community ownership and stewardship and how are you pursuing it?
31:50 - In the face of this, what challenges have you come up against in pursuing your version of community ownership and stewardship?
Breakout Rooms - Past, Present, and Future Jam Board!
Session #2: Connecting Resources to Community Ownership and Stewardship Projects (05/17/2024)
Panelists:
Laura Raymond (Director at ACT-LA)
Matt Cropp (Executive Director at the Vermont Employee Ownership Center)
Nola Miguel (Executive Director at Tierra Colectiva Community Land Trust)
Shawn Escoffery (Executive Director at the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation)
3:42 - Opening Grounding
9:25 - Deep Dive on Future by Community
25:29 - Panelist Introduction ("Introduce yourself briefly and the community-ownership work you have engaged in?")
32:48 - "What resources have been the most instrumental in advancing your community-owned real estate project? Were there any lightbulb moments for your team?"
41:34 - "What relationships and learning opportunities were instrumental initially in setting you down a pathway for successful implementation of your first project? What would you recommend for someone who is seeking mentorship or guidance in the early stages of this work?"
50:20 - "What are some of the strategies that you are employing to create social housing?
What are more innovative strategies, policies, and tactics you are working on or seeing in LA or elsewhere?"
1:05:20 - "How did you fund and resource your community ownership project? How you’re creating/ accessing financing models that don’t rely on extractive/ capitalist modes of funding?"
1:20:41 - Closing
Session #3: Racial Equity, Environmental Justice, and Community Stewardship (08/15/2024)
Panelists:
Jessica Melendez (Director of Policy at T.R.U.S.T. South LA)
Jennifer Ganata (Legal Department Co-Director at Communities for a Better Environment)
Erich Nakano (Executive Director at Little Tokyo Service Center)
Kasey Ventura (Director of Organizing & Advocacy at Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust)
Laura Martínez (Manager of Environmental Justice Programs at Cultivando)
2:48 - Panelists Introduction
13:20 - History of how we got here and why we think Community Stewardship is a good strategy
22:30 - Climate Adaptation and Resilience, Climate Refugees
39:04 - Cultural preservation strategies
49:00 - What is your vision for the future and the new development that you want to see come into fruition?
54:50 - What does it mean to build an intentional environmental justice community & what are issues that you continue to center and think about?