Community Leadership

The impacts of systemic oppression and racism are alive and continually reverberating throughout the community directly adjacent to the former Park Hill Golf Course. Denver's Northeast Park Hill, Clayton, and Elyria Swansea Neighborhoods have great diversity in race/ ethnicity and income. However, like most urban neighborhoods across the country, these areas have been heavily influenced by institutional practices that have reinforced social inequity. These inequities cause challenges when it comes time to engage a changing neighborhood, where the platform for a community's voice typically belongs to those with privilege. This privilege manifests in many ways and can overrepresent the viewpoints of a community. Those without the benefit of free time are often unheard of, missing out on helping to shape the future of their environments. Without these voices, communities continue to develop and change in ways that cater to the privileged, further contributing to inequitable neighborhoods.

The efforts of this project were to promote equity within the community's voice and ensure that the marginalized are respected by gaining opportunities to help shape the future.