The Optimist Park Project

The UNCC Bonner Leaders Program invited community leaders Boris Henderson, Alexis Craghead and James Atkinson to host a semester long service learning, community engagement project focusing on gentrification in Optimist Park. In this episode, UNCC student Rebecca De Luna meets Alexis to see the response to the community’s growing attention to the gentrification in Optimist Park. If you want to reach me, email rdeluna@uncc.edu.