Join the Tacoma Tree Foundation for the first event in our new monthly webinar series, Intersections in Environmental Justice: Trees and Justice. We will be discussing how we can use the presence (or not) of trees in our cities to understand inequitable development, and what that means for neighborhoods and residents.

We will be joined by two speakers, Brandi Yanez-Riddle and Dexter Locke: 

Brandi Yañez-Riddle (disconnected hñähñu) is a visual practitioner & illustrator with a passion for food systems, community development and racial justice, and is currently a Coordinator at the Just & Healthy Food System of the Puyallup Watershed Initiative. They help community members to build sustainable anti-oppressive projects, programming & businesses, and also creates visual concept breakdowns of racism and oppression as it relates to various topics.

Dexter Locke is a research social scientist in the USDA Forest Services Urban Field Station Network. Based out of Baltimore, he applies spatial data science methods to understand urban ecosystem structure, function, and change in the largest metropolitan areas of the United States. Dexter has been lucky to make a career out of his three passions: cites, trees, and people. 

This format will allow for questions after the presentations and some tangible calls to action and possibly time for discussion at the end.

Register here.