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Our chapter was just published in a new volume Exploring Equitable Community-Campus Relationships, edited by Karla Bird, Suchitra V. Gururaj, Sara B. Moore, Andrea Robles, and Cindy Vincent Claar (Routledge, 2026). I’m proud to have co-authored chapter 14 with Zoë Ackerman, Joceline Fidalgo, Minnie McMahon, and John Smith. Our chapter is titled: “Navigating Power, Equity,Continue reading Book chapter published in Exploring Equitable Community-Campus Relationships
I had the opportunity to help support the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network to advocate for state funding. The Network testified at the state house for S.1010 / H.1576. Check out this article in Bay State Banner: https://baystatebanner.com/2025/07/03/new-legislation-aims-to-create-more-permanently-affordable-housing-in-mass/ Below is the testimony I submitted on June 25, 2025. Testimony in support of S.1010 /Continue reading Greater Boston CLT Network advocating for state funding of permanently affordable housing
Check out this article on Mutual Aid Eastie: https://eastboston.com/coordinating-mediating-and-empowering-mutual-aid-eastie-lends-a-hand/ (published July 8, 2025, written by Anna Hu). I was interviewed and quoted and the author referenced our report Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Robert “Bob” Terrell passed on January 29, 2025. Nearly 100 of his colleagues, friends, and students gathered on April 23 at Tufts University (and online) to celebrate and continue his legacy. As many noted, Bob would not have wanted an event to glorify him as an individual. Rather, this event allowed for people to connectContinue reading Celebrating and Continuing Bob Terrell’s Legacy
Check out this new podcast featuring the panel on Mutual Aid — Lessons from East Boston from October 3, 2024. This panel shared findings from our May 2024 report Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Thanks to Cities@Tufts and Shareable for turning the panel into this episode! Panel: Isabella Buford (Tufts UEP), Paulina CasasolaContinue reading Podcast: Mutual Aid — Lessons from East Boston
I’m excited to share this article “Building the Solidarity Economy: A Decade’s Assessment” in Nonprofit Quarterly. This piece is basd on the work I’ve been involved with over the last fifteen years with community partners, including the Solidarity Economy Initiative and Center for Economic Democracy.
Check out the new report Cooperatizing Boston: Advancing Municipal Support for Worker Ownership, just released by the Center for Economic Democracy’s Solidarity Economy Initiative. I helped advise this project and its main author Erwin Li, who is a recent master’s degree graduate of Tufts Department of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning. The project wasContinue reading Report Launch: Cooperatizing Boston
Lessons Learned from the Solidarity Economy Initiative 2014 – 2021 By Penn Loh, Michelle de Lima, and Erwin Li “We want to change the mentality of people from individual to collective thinking and not only to keep it in the mind but also to transfer that to the heart in order to know how toContinue reading Solidarity Economies as Relational Practice to Build Worlds Beyond Capitalism
Morgan Florsheim recently published an op-ed on highway removal in Next City. This piece is based on her Tufts UEP Master’s thesis, completed in July 2024 (titled “Deconstruction Ahead: Examining the History and Potential of Highway Removal in Milwaukee”). I and Kate Davies served as her thesis advisor and reader, respectively. Morgan asks the importantContinue reading Op-Ed on Highway Removal in Next City
The annual Greater Boston Housing Report Card, most recently released in November 2023, featured a special chapter focusing on community land trusts. I had the honor of leading a team that included Tufts UEP graduate students Chelsey Gao and Johnny Shively to draft that chapter. Check out the 2023 Greater Boston Housing Report Card here.Continue reading Community Land Trusts featured in Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2023