Community Arts as an Organizing Tool Against Gentrification and Displacement

PART OF THE SPRING 2023 URBAN STUDIES & PLANNING LECTURE SERIES 

LECTURERS

RODNEY CAMARCE, Engagement Coordinator, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA

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BIOGRAPHY

Rodney returns to the Asian Arts Initiative after serving multiple arts organizations throughout Philadelphia as a visual artist, a facilitator, the Youth Development Manager for the Mural Arts Program and a graphic recorder for the Bartol Foundation, Lenfest Foundation, and Ground Work USA. He has served as a Co-Ambassador for the Racial Equity Network for the National Guild for Community Arts, has been a Community Organizer in South Philadelphia and the International District in Seattle, works to build solidarity among all people in struggle, believes that we must subvert this cultural genocide by any means necessary, and practice radical optimism to imagine new possibilities.