Dr. Griffith talks with host, Aubrey Phillips about her roots as a Gotham Avenue Elementary School student and her journey through Elmont Memorial High School, The US Army and more.

Vanessa remembers her high school teacher Michelle Seeley as "the one [high school] interaction that sticks out". It was Mrs Seeley's recommendation for college, her Guyanese roots and an Elmont community that supports education that charted Vanessa's science / medical direction and her continued dedication to service to community and country.

When County Executive Laura Curran collaborated with Newsday's Randi Marshall to rebut the Elmont Community's well established objection to the central issue regarding the Belmont Park Redevelopment Project, they disclosed publicly what they had been planning privately, the gentrification of Elmont.

This podcast replays the comments of two developers as they discuss jobs, gentrification and other unmitigated problems with the development.

Curran's silence on the issue of gentrification is deafening.

The Closing of Nassau Coliseum complicates the jobs rhetoric or worse, lays bare the subtext of an ill conceived plan to "rebuild" and "arrest future blight".  Blight the community know will be the result of deliberate government inaction.   

To complete the online 2020 Census survey go to 2020Census.gov and click on the "Start Questionnaire" button.
This podcast features an in depth conversation with Mimi Pierre Johnson about the census.  She explains who must be counted and why.  She gives examples of real life consequences when the communities are under counted.