1 hr 11 min

BONUS: Moving at the Speed of Trust (w/ Zahra Ebrahim‪)‬ Urban Roots

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Housekeeping first! Please give to our GoFundMe Campaign – we need your help to earn $5,000 by December 31: https://www.gofundme.com/f/urbanistmedia

We’re also up for an Anthem Community Voice Award! Vote for us (Sign in and click “Celebrate”) by December 21! 

Now our amazing guest: Zahra Ebrahim, the co-founder of Monumental, a social purpose business working to advance equitable city-building and urban development. Earlier this year she also helped start FutureBuilds, a BIPOC Real Estate Development Incubator. She’s currently an Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, a Next City Vanguard Civic Leader, and one of the Urban Land Institute’s WLI Champions. 

Mentioned In this Episode: 


A refresher on who we are [0:00-2:16]


Please donate to our GoFundMe! [2:17-5:51]


Please vote for us for the Anthem Awards! [5:52-7:10]


Introducing Zahra Ebrahim [7:11-8:26]


Zahra’s background and journey into this work [8:27-25:17]


Community engagement and moving at the speed of trust [25:18-31:34]


Deep and human, not broad and cold [31:35-44:35]


Do your homework and listen [44:36-53:39]


What do we preserve and why? [53:40-1:03:20]


Why diversifying real estate matters [1:03:21-1:10:29]


Credits [1:10:30-1:11:50]



Credits: 

Thank you to Zahra Ebrahim and Elaine Gant. This episode was edited and mixed by Connor Lynch. Our music is by Adaam James Levin-Areddy. Your hosts are Deqah Hussein-Wetzel and Vanessa Quirk. 

Urban Roots is a product of Urbanist Media, a non-profit dedicated to community preservation. You can make a tax-deductible donation to us via GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/urbanistmedia

Follow us on IG at urbanrootsculture. Or drop us an email urbanrootspodcast@gmail.com

Housekeeping first! Please give to our GoFundMe Campaign – we need your help to earn $5,000 by December 31: https://www.gofundme.com/f/urbanistmedia

We’re also up for an Anthem Community Voice Award! Vote for us (Sign in and click “Celebrate”) by December 21! 

Now our amazing guest: Zahra Ebrahim, the co-founder of Monumental, a social purpose business working to advance equitable city-building and urban development. Earlier this year she also helped start FutureBuilds, a BIPOC Real Estate Development Incubator. She’s currently an Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, a Next City Vanguard Civic Leader, and one of the Urban Land Institute’s WLI Champions. 

Mentioned In this Episode: 


A refresher on who we are [0:00-2:16]


Please donate to our GoFundMe! [2:17-5:51]


Please vote for us for the Anthem Awards! [5:52-7:10]


Introducing Zahra Ebrahim [7:11-8:26]


Zahra’s background and journey into this work [8:27-25:17]


Community engagement and moving at the speed of trust [25:18-31:34]


Deep and human, not broad and cold [31:35-44:35]


Do your homework and listen [44:36-53:39]


What do we preserve and why? [53:40-1:03:20]


Why diversifying real estate matters [1:03:21-1:10:29]


Credits [1:10:30-1:11:50]



Credits: 

Thank you to Zahra Ebrahim and Elaine Gant. This episode was edited and mixed by Connor Lynch. Our music is by Adaam James Levin-Areddy. Your hosts are Deqah Hussein-Wetzel and Vanessa Quirk. 

Urban Roots is a product of Urbanist Media, a non-profit dedicated to community preservation. You can make a tax-deductible donation to us via GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/urbanistmedia

Follow us on IG at urbanrootsculture. Or drop us an email urbanrootspodcast@gmail.com

1 hr 11 min

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