manager of dei initiatives @regionalplan. buffy fan. she/siya.
Brooklyn, New York
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RPA's gone international recently!
@oxvanes and @marcelnegret spoke to SE!ZE about basement ADUs, the issue of flooding, and the need for green infrastructure.
youtube.com/watch?v=mKuQwIMP…
great. abolish the crown. liquidate their stolen assets to fund transportation and convert their palaces to rent controlled flats.
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this is only exacerbating my anger that was highlighted this week with the SCOTUS leak and when i fell into the category of "over-educated and under-loved millennial"
"I would argue there’s nowhere to retreat to." - @LaurieJNYC @EnterpriseNow #RPAAssembly
Sobering words about managed retreat from flooding & our lack of affordable housing in the region
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also @jessnorwalk's seamless ability to speak to equitable TOD on @regionalplan's panel while soothing a baby is reason #9435 that parents are superhuman and should be paid more for doing both their jobs and the labor of raising the next generation.
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i made @CityAndStateNY and @NYN_media’s 2022 Nonprofit 40 Under 40 list! now, on to more transformative change and progress in urban planning so i can make their 40 *over* 40 list soon
"A lot of the folks who made these decisions either didn’t care about people of color, didn’t care about Black people, didn’t care about immigrant communities, or were just straight-up racist" RPA's Vanessa Barrios tells @CityAndStateNY.
➡️ cityandstateny.com/power-lis…
vanessa retweeted
Tell your crush your feelings. Eat that indulgent food. Take a sick day. Seek revenge. Try some new drugs. Hook up with your work wife. Call a child a bitch. If not on the brink of nuclear war, when?
legalizing accessory dwelling units & reforming land-use regulations is needed in the NYS now. learn more through the videos linked in this thread:
Videos are available in both English & Spanish on rpa.org. Thanks to the @MaketheRoadNY members who agreed to be interviewed as well as @AARPNY for contributing their perspective. Let's make New York affordable for all of us.
➡️ bit.ly/housinginsecurityvide…
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the tracks are already there!
🚨 TRIBORO IS MOVING FORWARD 🚨
@GovKathyHochul just announced @MTA will launch an environmental impact statement for Interborough Express, an above-ground rail line using existing tracks through Brooklyn and Queens, and two-thirds of RPA's Triboro proposal #StateOfTheStateNY
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vanessa retweeted
We know our region & world can't become carbon neutral w/out vastly improving & expanding public transit.
So how do we build the civic & political will to make it happen? RPA's @oxvanes recently joined @350brooklyn's podcast to giver her take.
🎙️open.spotify.com/episode/2pn…
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ALT Vanessa Barrios smiling amid limbs of a banana palm
councilmember Pierinaaaaa!
Today, I took the oath of public office to serve on a historic @NYCCouncil.
Though I have been inside City Hall before, today was different, carrying the weight of family & community dreams as an Afro-Dominicana of humble Bronx roots.
Thank you for this privilege, District 14.
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🧅🧅🧅pondering onion theory with Ms. Carol from @HillConsensus ICYMI - check out the recording from yesterday's webinar here: rpa.org/events/health-equity…
"It’s so crazy that in this day and age there’s still so much racism going on, housing discrimination, evictions still going on...If you had an onion that you peeled back every day, which layer would you cry about the most?" - Carol Hardeman, Director @HillConsensus
Demand for investment in collective healing.
"We ask for investments in our collective healing. That would be our call to action." - @TatewinMeans @tvalleycdc
don't miss the first public event from the Healthy Regions Planning Exchange this Thursday 12/2 at 1pm ET - rpa.org/events/health-equity…
📍 THIS WEEK 📍
See how groups are advancing racial & health equity through legislation, base building, comms & culture change in different regions from Chicago & Los Angeles to New Orleans & the Dakotas.
🎙️ Keynote by @HerminiaPalacio
📅 12/2 @ 1pm EST
bit.ly/HealthEquityEvent
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vanessa retweeted
🚩🚩55 organizations call on the @RacialJusticeNY to propose a charter amendment: public land should be preserved for public good rather than given away to for- profit development nyccli.files.wordpress.com/2…
