Making A Neighborhood
Making A Neighborhood, J.T. the L.A. Storyteller, Samanta Helou Hernandez, Ali Rachel Pearl, Itzel Whyte, Natalie Gonzalez, Cassy Agredano, Sarah BennettA newsletter devoted to highlighting what makes a neighborhood. Subscribe for photo essays, interviews, and long-form storytelling about everything from gentrification to the untold story of that one neighbor who grows fruit from Central America.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issues | 88 | Subscribers | Read | makinganeighborhood.substack.com |
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Home at the Butcher Counter
The following essay is part of our neighborhood dispatch series. Cassy was a student in the writing class I taught last fall about place-making where she wrote this vivid and touching essay about growing up Latine in Irvine, California. Cas...
Love for Gower St.
“You are so lucky! You live in Hollywood!” That has been the most common response when I respond to the question, “Where do you live?” In 1985, my father had been connected to a dental laboratory through my late Oaxacan uncle. My father’s n...
Can You Take A Neighborhood With You?
When I was a kid, my mom drove us to the local plant nursery and bought a small potted bougainvillea. This was during a Colorado summer, which isn’t a terrible climate for a bougainvillea as they love the heat and Colorado summers are nothi...
Jimmy MacWilliams, Bellevue Park's Most Valuable Team Player
Jimmy MacWilliams, director of the Bellevue Recreation Center and Programming. Photo by Samanta Helou Hernandez.
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A weekly newsletter devoted to highlighting what makes a neighborhood. Subscribe for photo essays, interviews, & longform storytelling about everything from gentrification to the untold story of that one neighbor who grows fruit from Central America.
Has published essays, poetry, and more for L.A. since 2014; the places he calls home include East Hollywood, Koreatown, Echo Park, Historic Filipinotown and more of central Los Angeles.
Samanta Helou Hernandez is a multimedia journalist and photographer covering culture, identity, and social issues. In 2017, Samanta created “This Side of Hoover,” an on-going visual archive of gentrification and resilience in East Hollywood.
Writer, teacher, & community organizer in Los Angeles.
A current college student of Guatemalan and Chicana descent, born and raised in Highland Park, North East Los Angeles. All I do is driven by the belief that el corazón es lo que mueve el mundo / the heart is what moves the world.
Natalie Gonzalez is a Hollywood native that has a passion for empowering her fellow neighbors. Through her page, and writing she voices the perseverance of immigrant workers and their families, and proudly continues to represent her Salvadoran roots.
Cassy Agredano is a professional over-thinker based in Irvine, CA. She draws inspiration from her cultural background and the delightful chaos of everyday life. She also loves horror movies, clam chowder bread bowls, and the Oxford comma.
Sarah Bennett is an educator, journalist, editor, designer and zinester living in Long Beach, Calif.
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