Browsing by Author "Crouch, Anna"

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    Planting the Seeds of Change: Germinating a Greener Future An Exercise in Co-Creation
    (Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2021-05-14) Ahlers, Kathy; Crouch, Anna; Gabb, Matthew; Wyne, Keith
    The nascent and burgeoning realm of co-creation in community formed the basis for this project. The central realm: food sovereignty and food justice organizations on the Northside of Minneapolis. Main players were Project Sweetie Pie's two principal people — the founder/executive director and the CFO, the four members of the capstone team with the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the faculty advisor, and from that center, radiating out, was an ever-widening array of other groups and individuals, working together and eventually creating six major deliverables, or outcomes. We envisioned this project, and these deliverables, as setting foundations for future work. Our goal was to create materials that could easily be edited, expanded, and updated over time to provide the greatest use to Project Sweetie Pie (PSP) and its partners. Our work should be contextualized as a first “phase” for making collaboration on food, climate, racial, social, and economic justice in Minneapolis more effective and efficient in the months and years to come. While the work described in this report further grows roots for the organization, further phases will flower and harvest the fruits of this labor to strengthen the work of PSP.
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    Planting the Seeds of Change: Germinating a Greener Future An Exercise in Co-Creation
    (2021-05) Ahlers, Kathy; Crouch, Anna; Gabb, Matthew; Wyne, Keith
    This project was conceived in the summer of 2020 in Minneapolis during the first global pandemic since 1918, and a few short months after the bystander video of the murder-by-suffocation of a handcuffed and unarmed Black man, George Floyd, under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer who is white (as three other officers looked on without intervening), went viral and sparked world-wide horror, sorrow, outrage and protest. That such a murder could happen was not news to the Black community in Minneapolis. Hundreds of years of oppression, starting with having been kidnapped from Africa and brought to this continent as chattel slaves, through widespread lynchings starting when the Union pulled out of the South after Reconstruction following the Civil War, racial convenants in housing deeds, red-lining discrimination in mortgage lending, the highway system being intentionally routed through prosperous Black centers of commerce, the War on Drugs, discrimination in employment and education, mass incarceration and the current militarization of police departments and over-policing of Black and brown neighborhoods have generated a well-earned distrust of the white police state. Along with this reprehensible situation, underinvestment in other ways has left many Black neighborhoods with inadequate conventional sources of healthful food.