Another Place for Me, This Week’s #VideoFriday

A few months back I’d come across this video by Gracen Johnson, a Canadian going against the grain of what many say young people are doing, moving to the big city to get ahead. She willingly, with her partner, moved across Canada to a small city. Since then, she’s developed a lovely videoblog that I’m looking forward to digging into this weekend. For this week’s edition of Video Friday, I’m enclosing a link to her first video. Click on the picture below and learn more about what inspired her journey and what continues to inspire her work today.

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By Kristen Jeffers

Kristen Jeffers has always been interested in how cities work. She’s also always loved writing things. She went off to a major state university, got a communication degree and then started a more professional Blogger site. Then, in her graduate seminar on urban politics, along with browsing the urbanist blogosphere, she realized that her ideas should have a stronger, clearer voice, one that reflects her identity as a Black southern woman. And with that The Black Urbanist blog was born. Seven years, one Twitter account, one self-published book, two podcasts and a litany of speeches and urban planning projects later, here we are.