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Oct. 20th at 11 AM PST\/2 PM EST<\/p>\n
Register at HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n EcoDistricts’ fall\u00a0Webinar Wednesda<\/a>y<\/a>\u00a0series is continuing and we\u2019re pleased to be joined by Cindy Wu, Executive Director of\u00a0LISC Bay Area\u00a0for a conversation on the evolution of San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown Oct. 20th at 11 AM PST\/2 PM EST.\u00a0Cindy is the former Deputy Director for Chinatown Community Development Center, and helped develop and lead their Sustainable Chinatown\u00a0initiative\u00a0to preserve and restore one of the country’s most\u00a0vibrant\u00a0and culturally significant communities through the lens of sustainability,\u00a0resiliency, and cultural preservation. \u00a0Cindy will reflect on how her work at\u00a0Chinatown\u00a0CDC to\u00a0carefully\u00a0balance\u00a0resiliency\u00a0and green\u00a0infrastructure while protecting and enhancing the community\u2019s heritage and\u00a0autonomy, and how her time at Chinatown CDC informs her community development work today\u00a0throughout\u00a0the Bay Area.<\/p>\n Cindy\u00a0Wu\u00a0is the executive director of LISC Bay Area where she leads a local team to\u00a0facilitate the creation of community-centered agendas\u00a0in the areas of affordable housing, local economic development, and family financial stability in underinvested communities in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.\u00a0Prior to joining LISC, Cindy was the\u00a0Deputy Director and Community Planning Director for Chinatown Community Development\u00a0Center for over 10 years, helping to guide the organization through rapid growth from 1,700 to 3,000 units\u00a0of housing and stewarding more than\u00a0$45 million in neighborhood capital improvements.\u00a0Cindy\u00a0is equal parts grassroots activist and pragmatic problem-solver, guided by a deep\u202fcommitment to community engagement and decision-making by residents to determine the fate of their neighborhoods.\u202f\u00a0Cindy\u00a0has also been a member of the San Francisco Planning\u202fCommission, including a term serving as its president, and holds a Masters in City Planning\u202ffrom Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in Architecture from\u202fUC Berkeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3815,"featured_media":34062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,50,40,127,141,13,131,9,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693"}],"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\/3815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43694,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693\/revisions\/43694"}],"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=43693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}