D. Bradford Hunt is the Associate Professor of Social Science and History at Roosevelt University. He is the author of Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009 and winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society of American City and Regional Planning History. With Jim Fuerst, he compiled an oral history collection of former members and staff of the Chicago Housing Authority entitled When Public Housing Was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago (University of Illinois Press, 2005). He is also the Chair of the Programming Committee of the new National Public Housing Museum.
Natalie Moore is the reporter for WBEZ’s South Side Englewood bureau, for which she covers news and community issues in the neighborhood and the surrounding communities. She is co-author of the books Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation, published by Cleis Press, and Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang published by Lawrence Hill Press. She is an adjunct instructor at Columbia College Chicago and is the former program chair for the Association for Women Journalists.
Emmanuel Pratt is the Executive Director for the Sweet Water Foundation (http://sweetwaterfoundation.com/) in Milwaukee, an organization dedicated to building intergenerational and interdisciplinary educational programming for sustainability with a focus on the potential of urban agriculture and aquaculture in post-industrial cities. He has been invited to spend the next several months in residence at the Hyde Park Art Center to examine his art practice as a way to digest his recent Chicago venture, the Mycelia Project. The Mycelia Project is an innovative and educational collaboration with Chicago Public Schools, Urban Gateways, and the Woodlawn Community Development Corporation (among others) that seeks to unite the various Chicago communities via hands-on, experimental projects that promote learning focused on food, soil, water and energy sustainability.
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