Environmental Planning and Community-Centered Praxis | BMI Summer Institute on Environmental Justice
Black Midwest Initiative Facilitator Talk Series
July 22, 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities
Address
1007 W. Harrison Street, Suite 153, Chicago, IL 60607
Calendar
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10:00am | Presentation: “Art of Community Transformation” | LaShawnda Crowe Storm, Indianapolis, Indiana
LaShawnda Crowe Storm is an artist, activist, community builder and occasionally an urban farmer. Whether she is making artwork or sowing seeds, at the core of Crowe Storm's creative practice is a desire to create community; any community in which the process of making art creates a space and place for difficult conversations with an eye to community healing. Crowe Storm has received numerous awards for art and community service.
11:15am | Presentation: “Black Environmental Planning at the End of This World” | Fayola Jacobs, University of Minnesota
Fayola Jacobs is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota in the urban planning area. Her academic work sits at the intersection of Black geographies, Black feminisms, radical planning, and environmental justice. She uses these frameworks to understand global Black communities’ experiences of their environments. Focusing on natural hazards and climate change, her research views disasters not merely as outcomes of systemic injustices but also as opportunities to imagine and build more just Black environmental futures.
Date posted
Jun 10, 2025
Date updated
Jun 10, 2025