This month, ROW recognizes DeAmon Harges for his insightful leadership and creative community work in waterway neighborhoods. Harges currently serves as a Co-Chair of the Central Canal Waterway Committee and bears the title Roving Listener of The Learning Tree, an organization that specializes in deploying Asset-Based Community Development to improve quality of life, including life along our waterways.
Harges first got involved with ROW in Fall 2015 and has organized community research and artistic programming at the intersection of his work with The Learning Tree and the Central Canal community.
Harges is currently working with the Canal Committee to deepen community engagement efforts within each waterway project. For Harges, the most rewarding part of the work has been “collaborating with people, getting residents engaged in a way they have never been before around the water.”
Harges is looking forward to further activation of Central Canal with the implementation of The Learning Tree’s Perceptions community arts project in conjunction with increased resident engagement in the ecological resources that surround them.
Thank you DeAmon Harges for your commitment to the Central Canal Committee and surrounding neighborhoods!