Defying Gentrification with Kristen Jeffers

Do you love cities? But, are you tired of your rent going up? The bus leaving you on the side of the road?  Your job not paying enough? Being seen as a nuisance instead of a neighbor? Your kids being undereducated, underfed, and unhappy?

I’m Kristen Jeffers and I’m proud to tell you that I’m Black, queer, feminist,  disabled, from North Carolina, and living between DC and Baltimore. I grew up watching Sesame Street and visiting my grandparents on their small rural farms, er, homesteads in the 1990s South. I get a rush when I take the DC Metro, but I get sad when I look at how much of my budget is going to expenses and seeing folks who look like me dead instead of thriving.

I created this podcast & channel, Defying Gentrification, to be your friend through all the life changes those of us who are Millennials , as well as Gen Z and X are going through, especially those of us who have more intersectional identities like myself.