Join the Swetland Center for Environmental Health on Sept. 27 from 9 to 10 a.m. for a presentation by Teela Patterson—”Healing Spaces: An Environmental Justice Initiative.”
Patterson spearheads Healing Spaces, an environmental justice initiative that began as a Cleveland Documenters project. In Spring 2021, with the support of a team of journalists, collaborators and sponsors, Patterson began a journey to address the issue of urban blight—abandoned, derelict land parcels that riddle low-income communities of color in Cleveland, Ohio. This initiative quickly evolved to include a documentary and much more.