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Dillon Hollian with RegionSmart and Andre Jones with Jones Urban Development discuss local efforts to support emerging minority- and women-owned real estate developers, and connect them to small-scale development opportunities. 

S4E11: Making Memphis' real estate industry more diverse

Abby Phillips and Jailenn Scott with Arrow Creative discuss Arrow’s diverse community of creatives, Memphis’ creative landscape, and their efforts to provide arts education in the absence of Memphis College of Art.

S4E10: Arrow Creative talks creative diversity and stepping up for arts education

Cornelius Sanders and Mary Ward with Promise CDC talk community-centered development, the human rights of housing, and the work done and yet to do to see northern Uptown thrive.

S4E9: A Promise and hopes in northern Uptown

Community revitalization consultant Austin Harrison and High Ground publisher Emily Trenholm discuss the local eviction crisis, its causes, and its impact on neighborhoods and families. 

S4E8: Why are so many Memphis families being evicted?

Anna Mullins from New Memphis and Chloe Moore from NEXT Memphis join publisher Emily Trenholm for a preview of the upcoming TEDx conference. The 2020 edition of the locally produced TEDx event will take place Saturday, February 22, at Crosstown Concourse Theatre.

S4E7: Behind the scenes at TEDx Memphis

BraNdis Leverette and Crystal Chopin with Oasis of Hope discuss the organization’s work serving the Bickford-Bearwater neighborhoods and its partnership with High Ground. We’re training residents to report their neighborhood’s news.

S4E6: Building neighborhoods from housing to authentic narratives

Yancy Villa-Calvo is working on an Orange Mound documentation piece with the students of Melrose and a historian scholar from University of Memphis.

S4E5: Orange Mound artists prepare feast, mural presentation and more

High Ground editor Cole Bradley and publisher Emily Trenholm discuss the publication's new focus on North Memphis neighborhoods with Deveney Perry from BLDG Memphis, who reports on what's she's learned in working with neighborhood stakeholders over the past two years. 

S4E4: What's happening In North Memphis?

On the Ground publisher Emily Trenholm is joined by Wendy Holmes from the Minneapolis-based Artspace and Sabrina Norwood from Young Actors Guild. The Artspace Immersion: Memphis program is helping ten local arts organization with a variety of real estate projects - from determining their space needs to constructing completely new facilities.

S4E3: Artspace Immersion helps local arts groups with their space

The Mid-South Coliseum will soon see revitalizing events inside the building for the first time in 14 years. Marvin Stockwell and Chooch Pickard with the Coliseum Coalition discuss the history, significance, and condition of building, and how you can see inside the Coliseum before the first event. 

S4E2: Mid-South Coliseum nearing first inside event since 2006

High Ground’s Emily Trenholm and Cole Bradley along with our podcast producer, Natalie Van Gundy, reflect on our first year of our On the Ground Podcast, including favorite moments and biggest impacts.  

S4E1: Looking back on year one of the On the Ground Podcast

On the Ground lead writer A. J. Dugger talks with the family behind B Chill Lemonade about how they got started and what's next for the luxury lemonade brand.

S3E11: B Chill in Hickory Hill

A few years ago, Gaisman Park was seedy and neglected. Now there are hundreds of kids and families there each week. Chris Collier, founder of Friends of Gaisman, and Christina Crutchfield, community coordinator with Heights CDC, discuss the turn around and the power of passionate people investing in their neighborhoods.

S3E10: The revival of Gaisman

If there’s no one investing in you, invest in yourself. Britney Thornton, founder of JUICE Orange Mound, is on a mission to mobilize residents to revitalize the neighborhood on their own terms.

S3E9: Strategy, spare change and speaking for yourself

Community leaders share with High Ground News embedded journalists on the ground insight about what's moving Memphis neighborhoods forward.