As We Rise: Community Voice & Power for the Future

Taking inspiration from Danh Vō's She Was More Like a Beauty Queen from a Movie Screen , an artwork that uses fragments of history to puncture the myth of American democracy as perfect and unquestionable, this episode sits with our American democracy reality while also celebrating the civic tools New York City has been quietly building and should be leaning into right now.  In this episode we...

What if the solution to NYC's flooding crisis is sitting in your building's backyard? The As We Rise Podcast explores what it might look like to pair a citizen assembly with a public-private fund to address flood resilience in New York City, block by block. In this second episode, host Cassondra Warney asks what it will take to get nimble in the face of a city that is only getting wetter...

What does a 14th-century Italian fresco have to say about flooding in Brooklyn? More than you might think. The As We Rise Podcast explores what it might look like to pair a citizen assembly with a public-private fund to address flood resilience in New York City, block by block. In this first episode, host Cassondra Warney traces her path from an Arizona state legislature internship to the streets...

Listen to the trailer for the As We Rise podcast that explores flood resilience by combining a private public fund and citizen assembly, focusing on reducing flooding within the Gowanus watershed in Brooklyn, NY.