What Wakes Me Up/Moccasin Tracks presents:
What Wakes Me Up 2 Ana Edwards History of America
Our guest is the storied Ana Edwards. This was recorded at Richmond Friends Meeting in May, 2024 when Peace & Social Concerns invited her to tell the history of racism in Richmond and in Virginia.
Ana Edwards founded and led the Friends of Mali, a project of the Richmond Sister Cities Commission formed to promote education and cultural engagement between the cities of Richmond, Virginia and Segou, Mali, which continues today.
She founded and led the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project whose mission is to draw the connections of past to present into a stronger web of knowledge and planning for the future. This Reclamation Project began with the Defenders of Freedom, Justice and Equality and is still engaged in the community struggle to preserve and memorialize historic Shockoe Bottom through the establishment of a nine-acre memorial park and educational campus.
From 2005-2013, Edwards produced and hosted DefendersLIVE, a local news/talk radio program on WRIR 97.3 LP FM, and since 2005 has served om the editorial board of The Virginia Defender, a quarterly community newspaper, along with her husband, founding editor and publisher Phil Wilayto.
Ana managed a weekly farmers market as a nutrition education program an early childhood education center with its origins in neighborhood-centered social services. This was the first farmers market to work through the process of making SNAP bendfits, Food Stamps currency for fresh local foods. Before that, she was communications director for Homeward, Richmond’s coordinating agency for homeless services.
Ana Edwards also sat on the Future of Richmond’s Past Planning Committee (2011-2015) which produced and coordinated programming to commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War and Emancipation. (more…)
Sunny Gardener What Wakes Me Up/Moccasin Tracks February 25th, 2025
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Growing Greener presents:
Carol Olson on VCU’s Project Empower
Carol Olson talks about domestic violence and hospital based programs through her work with VCU’s Project Empower.
christamotley Growing Greener September 9th, 2022
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