Deatra Kemp is a native of Milwaukee with a long background in the real estate industry. She is passionate about helping close the home ownership gap within her city's Black and Hispanic communities. As the Vice President of Programs at Acts Housing , she oversees the homebuyer coaching, lending, and home rehab programs that help first-time homebuyers realize their dream of owning a home. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES Acts Housing (website) . Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram) . Do you know someone who woul...
Feb 29, 2024•59 min•Ep. 90
On this week’s episode, we’ve got a special double interview with Adam Greenfield and Miriam Schoenfield, who are both freeway fighters based in Austin, Texas. Greenfield is a transportation and land-use advocate and co-founder of Rethink35. Schoenfield, who is a board member at Rethink35, is a professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Challenging the expansion of a massive highway is one of the biggest missions one can take on in any city, so we’re excited to have Greenfield and Schoenfie...
Feb 08, 2024•52 min•Ep. 89
Jessica Peacock is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, and for the past four years, she’s been fighting to reopen her great-grandparents’ neighborhood grocery store in the Walnut Terrace neighborhood. The endeavor has required her to go through an extensive rezoning process, and on this week’s episode, she’s going to share what that journey has been like for her. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES Peacox Market (website). “ Raleigh Woman Battles City Hall to Reopen Her Great-Grandparents' Neighborhood Store...
Jan 25, 2024•30 min•Ep. 88
Today’s Bottom-Up Revolution guest is Jon Jon Wesolowski, who is an old friend of host Tiffany Owens Reed. Wesolowski lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with his wife and two kids and works full time in social media. Outside of work, he makes content for various social media platforms—mostly TikTok and Instagram—related to urbanist issues. He was a founding member of the Chattanooga Urbanist Society, a bottom-up group of residents who are making their city better through tactical action, and is al...
Jan 11, 2024•53 min•Ep. 87
On this episode, host Tiffany Owens Reed chats with Jennifer Gaughran. Gaughran is a resident of San Diego, California, and outside of her full-time job in marketing, she runs the Strong Towns Toastmasters group, where folks interested in cities and public speaking gather every week online to refine their speaking skills, while talking about various urban issues and Strong Towns concepts. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES Learn more about Strong Towns Toastmasters . Check out Gaughran’s adventure story podc...
Dec 14, 2023•46 min•Ep. 86
On this episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution , host Tiffany Owens Reed chats with Dustin LaFont. LaFont is the proud executive director of Front Yard Bikes , a youth workforce development program providing safe spaces for youth in Baton Rogue, Louisiana, to learn bike mechanics, welding, urban gardening, cooking, riding safety, and providing after-school jobs. LaFont first began repairing bikes with a few kids on his front yard in the summer of 2010, but as demand grew, the community rallied behi...
Nov 30, 2023•44 min•Ep. 85
Alisha Loch is a Strong Towns member , a mother of three, and a founding board member of Norwood Together, a community development corporation in Norwood, Ohio—which was a finalist in the 2022 Strongest Town Competition. A lover of cities, Loch enjoys community events, parks, porches, and anything that increases the small-town feel of Norwood. She is passionate about working alongside other residents to keep her neighborhood vibrant for future generations. Strong Towns members like Alisha Loch a...
Nov 16, 2023•38 min•Ep. 84
On this episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution , host Tiffany Owens Reed talks with Scott Jones. Jones is a lifelong resident of Long Beach, California, where he is the co-founder and executive director of We Love Long Beach , a nonprofit that encourages and equips residents to build connections with their neighbors through acts of generosity and hospitality. Their work shows how simple gestures of hospitality can be on-ramps to deeper connections with our neighbors, which can translate into friend...
Nov 09, 2023•52 min•Ep. 83
Aimee and Cody Frederick are the owners of Blockhouse Coffee , a specialty coffee house in a historic part of downtown Richmond, Texas, a small town in the Houston metro area. Even though they aren’t from Richmond or even from Texas, their café is just one way they are demonstrating radical commitment to their city. They also lead a Strong Towns Local Conversation group called Fortify Richmond and cultivate real estate. Aimee co-hosts a podcast called Born in the Bend and, starting in 2020, she ...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 82
Shelby Wild is a mom, a lifelong gardener, and executive director of Route One Farmers Market in her hometown of Lompoc, California, which she started in 2018 after her neighborhood farmer’s market closed. As both a traditional farmer’s market and a nonprofit, Wild’s goal for Route One Farmers Market is to increase access and break down barriers to local food in California’s Lompoc Valley. The market runs every Sunday and is currently the sole market for 50 miles of the central coast of Californ...
Oct 12, 2023•40 min•Ep. 81
