https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_m86R8R12SsiX1k9ItHBvVg?utm_source=EcoDistricts+List&utm_campaign=6ec195c7dd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_07_07_35_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_33b8680174-6ec195c7dd-373679126&mc_cid=6ec195c7dd&mc_eid=9142a17074<\/a><\/p>\nEcoDistricts is thrilled to be kicking off our 2021 Webinar Wednesday Series with the renowned Nathaniel Smith of Partnership for Southern Equity on March 17th at 11 AM PST\/2 PM EST.<\/p>\n
Nathaniel Smith is a passionate advocate for equitable land use practices and one of the top leaders in holistic community sustainability. Smith\u2019s advocacy activities were instrumental in the ratification of a 15 percent set aside of Atlanta Beltline Tax Allocation District (TAD) dollars for the development and maintenance of affordable workforce housing within the Atlanta BeltLine Planning Area – $250 million dollars over the 25-year lifespan of the Atlanta BeltLine TAD.<\/p>\n
Among his many accomplishments, The Huffington Post honored Nathaniel as one of the eight \u201cUp and Coming Black Leaders in the Climate Movement\u201d in 2017. Nathaniel was also named to the Grist 50 by Grist Magazine in 2018 and the Atlanta 500 by Atlanta Magazine in 2019 and 2020, and designated one of the 100 \u201cMost Influential Georgians\u201d by Georgia Trend magazine in 2018, 2019, and 2020. His work was also featured in the U.S. News and World Report, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Nonprofit Quarterly, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Voice, and others.<\/p>\n
In this webinar, Nathaniel will enlighten our community on best practices for advancing racial equity agendas through land use practices. You won’t want to miss it!<\/p>\n
Webinar Instructor<\/p>\n
\nNathaniel Smith
\nhe\/him
\nFounder and Chief Equity Officer, Partnership for Southern Equity
\nNathaniel Smith serves as Founder and Chief Equity Officer of the Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE), which advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South.<\/p>\n
Among PSE\u2019s notable accomplishments was the creation the American South\u2019s first equity mapping and framing tool, the Metro Atlanta Equity Atlas, and co-authoring numerous reports including: \u201cGrowing the Future: The Case for Economic Inclusion in Metropolitan Atlanta\u201d, and \u201cEmployment Equity: Putting Georgia on the Path to Inclusive Prosperity\u201d. PSE also led a coalition of diverse stakeholders to support a $13 million transit referendum that expanded Atlanta\u2019s metropolitan transit system into a new county for the first time in 45 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8699,"featured_media":34062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,40,19,21,7,12,13,8,9],"class_list":["post-38442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-alumni","tag-event","tag-local","tag-outside-pnw","tag-pnw","tag-portland-area","tag-recent-grads","tag-seattle-area","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38443,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38442\/revisions\/38443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}