Name: Fighting for Housing! A ferry talk and tour with Karen Blondel
Start: 2024-09-20T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-20T18:00:00-04:00
Location: DUMBO Ferry

Fighting for Housing! A ferry talk and tour with Karen Blondel

Join legendary public housing advocate Karen Blondel as we travel the waterfront from DUMBO to Red Hook and discuss NYC's future .
About this Event

Imagined Futures: This is Your City

Join us for a Ferry tour with longtime public housing advocate and fierce environmental leader Karen Blondel in conversation with journalist Yessenia Funes.

This tour begins at the Ferry terminal in DUMBO and travels on the water to Red Hook, where we'll walk down to the waterfront and end at a kick-off party for Climate Week at Strong Rope Brewery (RSVP here).

Participants will be walking for 10 minutes as part of the walk.
Please contact us with any accessibility concerns.

Participants are responsible for their own NYC Ferry ticket and late-comers will not be accomodated. Note: Tickets are first come first served and there is no reserved seating. To ensure seating, please arrive 15 minutes before the departure of the Ferry.

Part of a city-wide program and Interactive Scavenger hunt.
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Karen Blondel

Karen Blondel, Founder and Executive Director of the Public Housing Civic Association,is the kind of activist that can get a crowd on its feet, go head to toe with city legislators and connect com- munities that might not otherwise. With experience in engineering, environ- mental education and public housing policy, Karen Blondel knows saving a shoreline can’t be just about the shore but the people who live somewhere.

Ms. Blondel has been a recipient of the prestigious David's Prize, Harvard’s Loeb’s Fellowship, AmeriCorps Vista Program, the Red Hook Public Safety Corp, Friends of the Library, Red Hook NY Rising Committee, Red Hook Community Collaboration and the Red Hook West Tenant Asso- ciation.

Yessenia Funes

Yessenia Funes is an environmental journalist born and raised in New York. She focuses on environmental and climate justice, always centering the lived experience of community in her writing. She's presently editor-at-large at Atmos, an independent climate and culture magazine. Her writing can be found in Vox, National Geographic, New York Magazine, Vogue, Scientific American, and more. She publishes a weekly creative climate justice newsletter called Possibilities where she shares her art and musings.