Violence & Trees: Activist Talk with Nikita Mtulu

Activist talk at the Crow's Nest:

Violence & Trees: Using structures of the past to imagine futures in Baltimore City neighborhoods.

Nikita Mtulu is a social scientist, gardener and advocate imagining community-led strategies for green equity in Baltimore City. Her advocacy work focuses on taking an anti-gentrification approach to a greener public right-of-way, and being grounded in neighborhood histories of environmental racism and classism. Originally from Texas, she has lived in Baltimore City for a decade, worked in community-engaged public health research, and is currently doing her PhD in Sociology specializing in race, class, and social policy. Nikita is also the co-chair of the Beautification Committee of Greater Greenmount Community Association working to green the sidewalks of the Barclay and East Baltimore Midway neighborhoods.

Image: Detail from Zen for a Dying Planet No III-- Kei Ito

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