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In the summer of 2001,
Georgia Silvera collaborated with serveral Newhallville neighbourhoods
as a community forester for URI's Greenspace program in New Haven.
Since her internship with URI, she has worked as an urban forester
for the Boston Parks & Recreation Department and a community
forester with the Boston Urban Stewards Program, a collaborative
of UMass Extension and the Boston Parks Department. Georgia's
work with URI provided a flexible framework for developing community-oriented
programs as well as linking neighbourhood groups to each other.
Currently, Georgia is in her second year of doctoral studies
at UC Berkeley. Georgia's studies at Berkeley are centered on
the neighbourhood, the values of which she discovered in her work
with the URI Greenspace program. She is specifically looking at
the intersections of phenomenological and material understandings
of place in neighbourhood revitalization. |
