Join Mapping Prejudice and Our Streets MPLS at Sumner Library for a gallery talk on the current Old 6th Ave North exhibit. Attendees will learn about the history of the neighborhood as it relates to racial covenants and transportation and the lingering effects today.

About the Speakers:

Kirsten Delegard is one of the co-founders of the Mapping Prejudice Project. A third-generation Minneapolitan, she trained originally as a women's historian and explored the history of women and politics in her early research. More recently she has devoted her energy to public history and unearthing the complex past of her hometown. This focus led to Mapping Prejudice and the Historyapolis Project, which Delegard also founded.

José Antonio Zayas Cabán is the Advocacy Director for Our Streets Minneapolis, where he has worked on developing reparative justice campaigns across the Twin Cities. He is also a 2023 board member at Streets.mn and finished serving as co-convener and Advisory Board member in a climate and mobility justice campaign that aims to increase multimodal transportation and reduce vehicle miles traveled and improve equitable access to transportation infrastructure across the state of Minnesota. In addition, as a 2022—2023 Mapping Prejudice Project Community Fellow, José will also be conducting research into the intersections between racial covenants, transportation, housing and land use, and developing a workbook on how to address these issues through an integrated approach to advocacy. José is also a resident at the University of Minnesota Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, where he will be working on an essay for the upcoming book Human Tolls: Public Histories and Community Responses to Twin Cities’ Freeways in collaboration with Associate Professor Greg Donofrio and Dr. Ernest Lloyd from the Heritage Studies and Public History program.