Present: Documenting Gentrification

Please note: If you are unable to access the Zoom channel, you can find our discussion live-streaming at the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council's YouTube.

That said, here is the Zoom info:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85206569528

Phone: 669 900 6833

Webinar ID: 852 0656 9528

A Zoom panel about the role of documentation as a tool for preserving histories of gentrification, organizing against displacement, and celebrating resilience. A conversation with This Side of Hoover, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, and The East Hollywood Tenants Union. This series is presented in collaboration with The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council.

Featuring:

Samanta Helou Hernandez, This Side of Hoover: This Side of Hoover is a visual archive documenting gentrification and resilience along the East Hollywood/Silverlake border.

Terra Graziani, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Terra Graziani is a researcher and tenants’ rights organizer based in Los Angeles, CA. She founded and co-directs the Los Angeles chapter of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), a digital storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance in solidarity with gentrifying communities through research, oral history, and data work.

Stephano Medina, Eviction Defense Network & The East Hollywood Tenants Union: Stephano grew up in Los Angeles and is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants. He is currently a Skadden Fellow at the Eviction Defense Network in Los Angeles, working on anti-gentrification policy and litigation alongside his sister, another EDN staff attorney handling eviction cases. Before law school, Stephano worked as a community organizer in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He is also a solidarity attorney with the East Hollywood Tenants Union.

PLUS A VERY SPECIAL GUEST TO BE ANNOUNCED

Moderator:

Jimmy Recinos, JimboTimes: J.T. is Editor-in-chief at jimbotimes.com, the host of J.T. The L.A. Storyteller Podcast, and creator of #LosCuentos de Los Angeles.

*LIVE English to Spanish translation will be provided by interpreters Monica Bravo Diaz & Rachel Echeto *

*Se proporcionará traducción en vivo de inglés a español.*