I wrote about the Tulsa community futures work for the Brookings Institution’s Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking. The piece details how we partnered with the Haywood Burns Institute and the Opportunity Accelerator to facilitate a 31-member community governance workgroup — Greenwood residents, advocates, and practitioners who co-created a community-driven development plan. The process combined radical imagination methodology with deep historical grounding: reckoning with the trauma and resilience of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and envisioning a radically different 2030.
Brookings: How Greenwood Is Reimagining Community Ownership of Real Estate
2024
