Housekeeping first! Please give to our GoFundMe Campaign – we need your help to earn $5,000 by December 31: https://www.gofundme.com/f/urbanistmediaWe’re also up for an Anthem Community Voice Award! Vote for us (Sign in and click “Celebrate”) by December 21! Now our amazing guest: Zahra Ebrahim, the co-founder of Monumental, a social purpose business working to advance equitable city-building and urban development. Earlier this year she also helped start FutureBuilds, a BIPOC Real Estate Development Incubator. She’s currently an Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, a Next City Vanguard Civic Leader, and one of the Urban Land Institute’s WLI Champions. Mentioned In this Episode:  A refresher on who we are [ Please donate to our GoFundMe! [ Please vote for us for the Anthem Awards! [ Introducing Zahra Ebrahim [ Zahra’s background and journey into this work [ Community engagement and moving at the speed of trust [ Deep and human, not broad and cold [ Do your homework and listen [ What do we preserve and why? [ Why diversifying real estate matters [ Credits [Credits: Thank you to Zahra Ebrahim and Elaine Gant. This episode was edited and mixed by Connor Lynch. Our music is by Adaam James Levin-Areddy. Your hosts are Deqah Hussein-Wetzel and Vanessa Quirk. Urban Roots is a product of Urbanist Media, a non-profit dedicated to community preservation. You can make a tax-deductible donation to us via GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/urbanistmediaFollow us on IG at urbanrootsculture. Or drop us an email [email protected]