Majora Carter: Changing the World One Neighborhood at a Time

Interviewed by Cesca Janece Waterfield

 
Each week during Black History Month, we’ll feature a leader who is making history today.
 
For revealing and maximizing the relationship between the environment, our economy and social justice, consultant and activist Majora Carter has been called “visionary” and a “genius”. She’s been featured in numerous publications and networks including Time Magazine, [...]

Daphne Reid Hosts Richmond Scholarship Dinner

by Cesca Janece Waterfield
 
Actress Daphne Reid will host the Ninth Annual Oliver Hill Scholarship Dinner, 6pm, April 30 at the Holocaust Museum, 2000 E. Cary St. With her husband, Tim Reid, Daphne has invested deeply in scholarship foundations for more than 18 years, since they first established a scholarship foundation. This year, the Tim Reid [...]

Van Jones: Green-Collar Leader

by Cesca Janece Waterfield
 

 
Van Jones is one of the nation’s most vital minds today, merging goals like creating jobs with environmental protection and restoration. His vision often results in solutions that simultaneously address social inequity and environmental misuse.
 
A Yale Law graduate, he has helped cities create “Green Jobs Corps” to train people in jobs that [...]

Audrey Peterman: Uniting Urban Communities and the Outdoors

by Cesca Janece Waterfield
 

 
When Audrey Peterman and her husband Frank first gazed out over the vast, scenic landscape of Maine’s Acadia National Park, hiked the trails of Yellowstone National Park, and stood beneath the rainforest canopy in Washington’s Olympic National Park, they saw a natural legacy that refreshed their pride in being American.
 
But what they [...]

Maurice Ashley: Top of His Game

 
The Brooklyn tenement where Maurice Ashley grew up didn’t appear to be fertile ground for greatness. Neighborhood violence was commonplace and he was becoming increasingly bored with school. The discovery of a chess book in the library proved to be his saving grace. The young man seized every opportunity to study game strategy and to [...]