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Dr. Sevgi Erdogan to participate on panel discussion about non-car transportation in DC suburbs

Dr. Sevgi Erdogan to participate on panel discussion about non-car transportation in DC suburbs

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Dr. Sevgi Erdogan to participate on panel discussion about non-car transportation in DC suburbs

 

Street Justice is hosting a panel discussion — Non-Car Transportation in the DC’s Suburbs; Challenges and Ideas — on Wednesday, January 27th from Noon to 2 PM ET. Dr. Sevgi Erdogan, Director of the Transportation Policy Research Group at NCSG, will participate.

Participants include local elected officials, subject matter experts, and advocates. Street Justice founder and reporter Gordon Chaffin will moderate two sessions.

The goal is to inform and equip viewers: identifying projects, policies, and systems where citizen participation can push for more transportation options, more environmental sustainability, and more livable communities where travel is safe and healthy.

 

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Intro: Electric Vehicles + Clean Grid Aren’t Enough (5 mins)

Panel 1: Elected and Appointed Officials (40 mins)

  • Reuben B. Collins; President, Board of Charles County, MD Commissioners [At-Large]
  • Dennis Enslinger; Gaithersburg, MD Deputy City Manager [Bio]
  • R. Earl Lewis, Jr.; MD Department of Transportation, Deputy Secretary for Policy, Planning, & Enterprise Services [Bio]
  • Christina Rigby; Howard County, MD Councimmeber [District 3 (North Laurel, Savage, Jessup)]
  • James Walkinshaw; Fairfax County, VA Supervisor [Braddock District (Burke)]
  • Kristen C. Umstattd; Loudoun County, VA Supervisor [Leesburg District]
  • Maybe: Patrick Wojhan; College Park, MD Mayor [Bio]

Panel 2: Subject Matter Experts, Government Staff, and Advocates (1:15)

  • Paolo Belita; Prince William County, VA Transportation Department [Bio]
  • Ralph Buehler; Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs [Bio]
  • Brianne Eby; Eno Center for Transportation [Bio]
  • Sevgi Erdogan; U-MD School of Arch, Planning, and Preservation [Bio]
  • Shyam Kannan; WMATA, Managing Director of the Office of Planning [Bio]
  • Jason Groth; Charles County, MD Department of Planning and Growth Management [Bio]
  • Joe McAndrew; Greater Washington Partnership, Vice President for Transportation [Bio]
  • Beth Osborne; Transportation for America
  • Jenny Schuetz; Brookings Institute, Metropolitan Policy Program, Future of the Middle-Class Initiative [Bio]

 

Learn more and register here.
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Prof. Irazabal in Critica Urbana: Black lives matter! Latinx and POC lives matter!

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Prof. Irazabal in Critica Urbana: Black lives matter! Latinx and POC lives matter!

Prof. Clara Irazabal has contributed a new piece on racial justice in Critica Urbana.
In 2020, Black, Latinx, People of Color (POC), and white residents took to the streets in the largest protest movement in US history. We (the authors) are strong supporters of and participants in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, and through our work and participation in education, anti-racist organizing, and demonstrations, encourage all to become so too. AND we’d like for the movement and its actions not to be—consciously or unconsciously—used to invisibililize the plight of non-Black Latinxs, indigenous peoples, and other POC facing police violence and other manifestations of systemic racism and white supremacy in the US.

There is a long history of Latinxs killed at the hands of police forces in the US from the early days of this country’s origin with no or negligible consequences to perpetrators because the state has not valued the lives of People of Color. In addition, Latinx history in the US is largely unknown. Particularly in the South and Southwest of the country, both Rangers and vigilantes cleared the way for westward expansion reigning terror, burning villages, and lynching and murdering Mexicans and Native peoples. The Texas Rangers alone killed 5,000 innocent Mexicans in 5 years, from 1915 to 1920. The origins of policing are situated in the oppression of Black and brown bodies and in the defense of property and privilege for whites.

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Prof. Lung-Amam authors Citylab piece on racial justice in a new Biden administration

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Prof. Lung-Amam authors Citylab piece on racial justice in a new Biden administration

For many Black and brown Americans, 2021 brought renewed optimism about advancing a racial justice agenda. With a new presidential administration, the racist despot will soon be removed, and the first African, Asian, Caribbean American and female vice president sworn in. Congress will be fully under Democratic control, and with a new mandate for change after a year of anti-racist uprisings that were among the largest protests in American history. Even the horrifying attack on the Capitol offered some rays of hope that honest conversations about the white supremacist roots of the U.S. are possible. As the Covid-19 vaccine began its slow but steady rollout, cheery forecasts emerged for a “v-shaped recovery” that could pull the economy out of an economic crisis often compared to the Great Depression.
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