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Early life, education, and career[edit]
Zewde was born in New Orleans to a family who immigrated from Ethiopia. Writing in a poem-essay as part of the 2018 Dimensions of Citizenship at the US Pavilion of the Biennale 2018, Zewde said of her experience as the child of African immigrants, growing up Black in the American South, "Exclusion fiercely shapes my psychology./I entered the field of landscape architecture./The first step was to wrestle with the word “land.” Zewde's work addresses her awareness of the complex and conflicting roles that land has played in both affirming Black identity and history, and in being the location of dispossession, disenfranchisement, enslavement and unfair labor, http://dimensionsofcitizenship.org/form-n-x00/sara-zewde/index.html

Zwede received her Master of Landscape Architecture degree form Harvard Graduate School of Design, a Master of City Planning degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Art in sociology and statistics from Boston University. https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/fellow/sara-zewde/

Based in Harlem in New York City, Zwede's firm, Studio Zwede, cultivates work that supports "the aesthetics of being," using a design methodology that brings together the characteristics of the site with the stories it can tell. The goal is to create places where people know they belong. The firm draws on a wide variety of talent to achieve its multi-disciplinary work, including landscape architecture, architecture, city planning, urban design, sociology, statistics, community organizing, and public art.

Projects[edit]
Mander Recreation Center Campus, in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

Graffiti Pier, Philadelphia

Valongo Wharf, Rio de Janeiro

Midtown Activation Plaza, Africatown, Seattle

Genesee Street, Houston

Awards & honors[edit]
While a student at at Harvard, Zwede was named the 2014 National Olmsted Scholar by the Landscape Architecture Foundation. At MIT, she received the Silberberg Memorial Award for Urban Design and the Hebbert Award for Contribution to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Prior to teaching at Harvard, Zwede taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.

Zewde has received awards and honors for her work including the Artist-in-Residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2016 and National Trust for Historic Preservation's inaugural “40 Under 40: People Saving Places” in 2018. Zwede participated in the Venice Biennale in 2016 and 2018 as part of the Brazilian and U.S pavilions. In 2020, she was named a fellow by United States Artists.

n parallel with practice, Sara regularly writes, lectures, and exhibits her work and is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Silberberg Memorial Award for Urban Design and the Hebbert Award for Contribution to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Sara was named the 2014 National Olmsted Scholar by the Landscape Architecture Foundation, a 2016 Artist-in-Residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and in 2018, was named to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's inaugural "40 Under 40: People Saving Places" list. Her work has been exhibited at the 2016 and 2018 Venice Biennale, in the Brazilian and U.S national pavilions.

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Notes on edits for Thunder Valley project:

NOTES TO EDITING TEAM: ''--Change the title of the article to Thunder Valley Regenerative Community Development. The plan appears to have broken ground and built at least 14 homes as well as a 12-unit apartment building and a community house (which was its starting point) by early 2019''

--Change characterization from "housing development" to something more comprehensive (I'm using community development, but it's more than just the buildings...thoughts?)

''Establish notability right away. I suggest an opening like this (I still have to put in cites where the [x] is:''

Thunder Valley Regenerative Community Development is a community development on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Lakota: Wazí Aháŋhaŋ) Oyáŋke) in South Dakota, developed by the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation (Lakota: Wakinyan Opha Okolakichiye). An award-winning example of Indigenous planning, the master plan for Thunder Valley community was initiated by young residents after deep discussion during a communal gathering led them to build a meeting house, where the idea for the community was born. From the beginning, the development did not restrict itself to land use but also sought to address the community needs for autonomy, prosperity, and spiritual continuity.

As of December 2019, the community had built 14 of the planned 21 single-family homes, plus the original community meeting house and a 12-unit apartment building on its 34 acres of land on the reservation's more than 1 million acres.[x]. The Thunder Valley CDC estimates that the reservation needs some 4,000 units of new housing.[x] The development's modern construction is sited in a pattern more characteristic of a Lakota teepee village than a modern street pattern. For example, all house fronts face east.[x] The development draws on the longstanding land stewardship principles of Lakota culture, harnessing cutting-edge technologies to adapt to climate change and take advantage of renewable energy sources.

Leadership
In 2017, the Rapid City Journal called the development, founded by Nick Tilsen (Oglala Lakota), "a veritable revolution in thought and deed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation," citing the Thunder Valley CDC's commitment to as comprehensive plan for poverty reduction and cultural preservation through the construction of housing and community facilities, Lakota language and cultural education, job and leadership training, and growing their own food. Tilsen stepped down in 2018 to found the NDN Collection, which [describe]

[insert new ED and bio here]Recollection of its founding by the former Deputy Director Jennifer Irving https://nonprofitquarterly.org/rebuilding-at-thunder-valley-a-story-of-the-lakota-nation-rising/

DO NOT PASTE verbatim from P2P wiki:

Eillie Anzilotti:

"One example is an initiative launched in 2007 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Lakota, which centers around the principle of community, but it’s about much more. Pine Ridge has long encapsulated many issues that Native tribes currently face on their lands: lack of investment, little infrastructure, few jobs, and next to no economy. Government assistance, which is scant, is one of the few forms of financial support people on the reservation receive. This struggle stems from centuries of persecution at the hands of white settlers and decisions by the U.S. government to erode indigenous culture—up until 1978, for instance, many Native religious traditions were outlawed.

''But now, members of younger generations are starting to reconnect with their culture’s traditions—and rebuilding community power. Nick Tilsen is among the more prominent of them. In 2007, he founded the nonprofit Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation to build prosperity on the Pine Ridge Reservation from the inside out. Tilsen spent hundreds of hours meeting with residents and cocreating a plan for the initiative. The design for Thunder Valley CDC includes a plan for the construction of affordable houses in a place where many families share trailers; youth are being trained in construction to carry out the plan and gain skills through an employee-owned company launched on the reservation. The project will also include amenities like playgrounds, farms, and community buildings. “At every step, the vision and building of the regenerative community arose from and within many circles of the community,” Kelly and Howard write.''

''Fostering well-being and stability for the Pine Ridge community is the primary goal of Thunder Valley CDC, but it’s also rooted in place—another principle of democratic economies. Previously, every dollar brought onto the Pine Ridge Reservation would leave again in 48 hours because there were no opportunities for people to spend money locally. By building out assets like homes and shops, Thunder Valley aims to create ways for wealth to remain in the community, instead of being pulled outward." ( https://www.fastcompany.com/90380529/7-principles-for-building-a-fairer-economy )''

NOTE: Nick Tilsen could merit his own page

Founded https://ndncollective.org/people/nick-tilsen/

prominent activists in family and served in a capacity in Obama Admin https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/nick-tilsen

Was one of the land protectors arrested iun July at Mt Rushmore

TEDx Talk, other resources here https://www.google.com/search?q=nick+tilsen+oglala+lakota&oq=nick+tilsen+oglala+lakota&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.6499j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8