Christie Gardner is an everyday leader and activist finding ways to ensure those in her community are supported and have access to opportunities. She keeps her hands, head, and heart in her community, helping others, organizing, informing, and encouraging the youth, women, elderly, and those most vulnerable to help them avoid the pitfalls of life in the nation’s capital.
“I choose to make a difference because I know all too well what it's like to struggle. I have been homeless.”
Christie is impassioned about stopping and overturning gentrification. Focusing on three primary aspects of D.C. residents’ lives—employment, housing, and healthy food—Christie is trying to improve the lives of some of the most overlooked residents in Washington at a time when so many are at risk of being displaced due to changes in the housing market.
“This is the nation’s capital, there shouldn’t be a crisis of homelessness.”
Learn more and donate to the organizations' mentioned in this episode by visiting their websites:
• https://breadforthecity.org/
• https://www.womenstrong.org/
• http://marthastable.org/
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