The Bottom-Up Revolution Strong Towns

Sara Joy Proppe is a native of Texas, but lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has a degree in urban planning, and has over a decade of professional experience and managing private real estate development projects, as well as leading community placemaking workshops throughout the Midwest. She's the founder and director of Proximity Project, a consultancy that helps churches discover how they can use placemaking to connect with the local community.
ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES

Proximity Project (website).


Check out Grand Rounds Scenic Byway, Summit Avenue, Cathedral Hill, and West 7th St.


Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram).


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Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen is a passionate community organizer in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. With extensive experience in providing reports and educational materials on community and economic development, he has collaborated with organizations such as the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, the U.S. Economic Development Administration, and the Local Initiative Support Corporation, where he currently serves. Beyond his professional commitments, Armando is a dedicated father and volunteers actively within his local school district. In this episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution, we delve into Moritz-Chapelliquen’s role as a grassroots community advocate.
ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES

Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen (LinkedIn; Twitter/X.)


Check out Easton Public Market and Plants and Coffee.


Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram).


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Maddy Novich is a criminal justice professor at Manhattan College, a mom of three, and an Instagram influencer living in New York City—you might know her as @cargobikemomma. Novich fell in love with cargo biking during a trip with her family to Europe in 2019, and launched an Instagram account when she came back to just share her love of biking around the city and to help other people, especially other women, realize that this mobility option is available to them.
ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES

Maddy Novich (Instagram).


Check out Vinetaria, Lalibela, and Double Dutch Espresso.


Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram).


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Deatra Kemp is a native of Milwaukee with a long background in the real estate industry. She is passionate about helping close the home ownership gap within her city's Black and Hispanic communities. As the Vice President of Programs at Acts Housing, she oversees the homebuyer coaching, lending, and home rehab programs that help first-time homebuyers realize their dream of owning a home.
ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES

Acts Housing (website).


Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram).


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On this week’s episode, we’ve got a special double interview with Adam Greenfield and Miriam Schoenfield, who are both freeway fighters based in Austin, Texas. Greenfield is a transportation and land-use advocate and co-founder of Rethink35. Schoenfield, who is a board member at Rethink35, is a professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Challenging the expansion of a massive highway is one of the biggest missions one can take on in any city, so we’re excited to have Greenfield and Schoenfield on the show to talk about this important work that they’re doing.
ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES

Rethink35 (website).


Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram).


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Jessica Peacock is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, and for the past four years, she’s been fighting to reopen her great-grandparents’ neighborhood grocery store in the Walnut Terrace neighborhood. The endeavor has required her to go through an extensive rezoning process, and on this week’s episode, she’s going to share what that journey has been like for her.
ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES

Peacox Market (website).


“Raleigh Woman Battles City Hall to Reopen Her Great-Grandparents' Neighborhood Store,” by Asia Mieleszko, Strong Towns (May 2023).


Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram).


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