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Save the Date: Hester Street’s 20th anniversary celebration

On Tuesday, November 14, 2023, join Hester Street as we celebrate 20 years of community-based planning and design at People Shaping their Cities: Creating joyful, just, and resilient futures. Featuring live performances, creative installations, and opportunities to engage with HST’s innovative design methods, People Shaping their Cities will celebrate and honor HST’s work in partnership with […]

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Welcoming Rosanna Valencia, 2023 Jim Diego Fellow

News June 15, 2023

Hester Street devotes urban planning, design and development expertise to support community-led change. We create and facilitate deeply democratic planning and policy making to advance racial and economic justice and to radically re-create cities shaped by low-income communities of color.

Hester Street announces new partnership with Next City

News June 01, 2023

Hester Street devotes urban planning, design and development expertise to support community-led change. We create and facilitate deeply democratic planning and policy making to advance racial and economic justice and to radically re-create cities shaped by low-income communities of color.

Eva Neubauer Alligood shares Hester Street focus areas

News June 01, 2023

Hester Street devotes urban planning, design and development expertise to support community-led change. We create and facilitate deeply democratic planning and policy making to advance racial and economic justice and to radically re-create cities shaped by low-income communities of color.

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Eva Neubauer Alligood

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Eva Neubauer Alligood is the Executive Director of Hester Street and a social justice leader with three decades of experience supporting community-led efforts to create more equitable and inclusive New York City neighborhoods. Prior to her work with HST, Eva served as Senior Director for Partnerships and Programs at LISC NY, where she created and […]

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Hester Street is an urban planning, design and community development nonprofit working so that neighborhoods are shaped by their people.

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News Aug. 2, 2023

Hester Street hosts The Future of Our Field panel

On Wednesday, July 26, Hester Street partnered with Next City and the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment at Pratt Institute to present The Future of Our Field, a conversation on fighting anti-Blackness and embedding racial equity in the fields of architecture, planning, and design. Over 40 people attended the in-person event and networking reception […]

News Jul. 6, 2023

The Future of Our Field

Increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in the practice of architecture, urban planning, and design remains an urgent issue in these fields. Not only is it important to increase the number of people of color in these professions, especially Black professionals, but also to support the advancement and leadership of Black and other people of color […]

News Jun. 15, 2023

Welcoming Rosanna Valencia, 2023 Jim Diego Fellow

On June 12, Hester Street officially launched the Jim Diego Fellowship – an immersive, 10-week fellowship program for graduate students of color, LGBTQI+ students, women, and other underrepresented voices in the fields of architecture, urban planning, and design. Named for our late colleague and friend Jim Diego, the fellowship provides hands-on experience working on HST’s […]

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