 My name is Jeremy Pine. On behalf of Community Information Now, we would like to welcome you to the Somos Neighbors Official Watch. Thank you for coming. We have a pretty short program here today. You saw that there's lots of stuff outside. We do have a hashtag for this, so if you're going to post anything on social media, it is hashtag Somos 210. So please do that. Also, you know, a number of fails with these events, right, that you try to invite people out. You try to make sure that you remember everyone, but without fail you are going to forget someone. And sometimes that person will go and they will do another town hall debate or something across town on their side. So we'd officially like to say sorry to Elizabeth Warren. You know, she seemed busy. We just thought she was busy. So it's great to have you all here today. We'd like to acknowledge a few guests that are here with us today. Austin Martinez from the Office of U.S., from the Office of U.S. House Representative Joaquin Castro in the 20th District. Alicia Dorado from the Office of Texas House Representative Inam Minhares, 20th District 124. Mateo Trevino from the Office of Councilwoman Anna Sendeval, San Antonio City Council District 7. Jennifer Deegan, Vice President of Health Policy and Systems Strategy at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. And also Zach Light from Mayor's Office here in San Antonio. And also Bethany Gutierrez from the Office of Texas House Representative Diego Bernard. So a little bit about who we are, community information now for those that aren't familiar. We're a local nonprofit. We are a data intermediary. What that means is that we take data information and put it out to the community. We're housed over at the UT Health, Houston School of Public Health in San Antonio. We're at the Medical Center. For the last 20 years, San Al has provided data analysis, training, and tools to help Texas communities make decisions that are formed by good data. So we do that through our vision of improving lives and decreasing disparities through democratizing data. What that means is that we take data, we make it accessible and easy to understand for local stakeholders here in our local community. We're also a part of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, which means that we're a part of this big partnership across the country, 32 other cities that are doing very similar work with data information. Several local partners and funders are also here tonight. We have the Center for Health Care Services. We have the City of San Antonio represented here as well. The Health Collaborative is here. The Karnkowski Charitable Foundation. The Local Initiatives of Corporations or LISC. SA 2020 is here. The San Antonio Area Foundation. And also the United Way of San Antonio and Veracruz. So thank you all for being here as well. So today we're here to celebrate the launch of our latest community data tool, Somos Neighbors. We'll do it down over here in a little bit so you can see how the tool works itself. But the purpose behind Somos Neighbors is that through data information, we know that neighborhoods are separated by a variety of issues here in Bear County. And in the case of life expectancy, there's an 18-year difference depending on where you live in this county. So between our highest-income neighborhoods and our lowest-income neighborhoods, you can have up to an 18-year difference in your average life expectancy depending on where you live. And that's a really big number. It's a really big difference between us as your communities. So what we're trying to do with Somos Neighbors is to bridge that distance between people's perceptions of our neighborhoods. We want to show that we have a lot in common across the entire county. And we want to show that with a goal that we want to show that with a goal of closing that gap with life expectancy here in Bear County. So what can we do to close that gap, that 18-year gap that is really, really big? And we'll go through that today and talk about it. I want to thank a couple of our partners here. So I want to thank the Health Collaborative for partnering us on this project. There's a photo section here where they're helping the volunteers go and take pictures of their neighborhoods. You'll see that in the demo. I want to thank our funders at Urban Institute through funds provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. And finally, I want to thank Tanika Lewis-Johnson, creator of the Fold and Map Project in Chicago. One of the inspirations for our project here. And she's here to speak with us tonight. And now, I'll turn it over to my colleague, Polina. Everyone, bienvenidos. Social projects are often inspired by the work that happens in other places by the leaders and the individuals that see them through. A project by the name of Fold and Map, which is a multimedia exhibit in a visual investigation, has been one of the primary inspirations for Somo's neighbors. Fold and Map is a project that allows the residents in the city of Chicago to connect through visualization, through photos and data. And these projects are often showcased as this Fold and Map throughout the city of Chicago and universities and galleries. I'm honored and excited to introduce today the creator of Fold and Map, Ms. Tanika Lewis-Johnson. She's a philanthropist, a social justice artist, a photographer, an MBA graduate from National Lewis University, and a recipient of a Biaturist and French Journalism and Photography from Columbia College in Chicago. Tanika is also the recipient of several awards, including Chicago of the Year in 2017. She was also awarded the emerging leading award by Changing Worlds. In 2019, she was named one of Field Foundation leaders for a new Chicago and was appointed as a member of the Cultural Advisory Council of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events by the Chicago City Council, and most recently, too, was recognized by the Chicago Wolves for her contributions to her community. Please join me in welcoming Tanika Lewis-Johnson. Hi, can everybody hear me? Okay, perfect. I am so proud to be with you today, but I'm just going to take a few seconds to transition into my presentation. So while she is doing that, I'm going to find a place to put my notes because I don't want to forget what I'm saying. Put it here, so just ignore it. By a show of hands, how many of you all have heard of Chicago's Inglewood neighborhood? So I'm not even going to ask you what you've heard. We don't need to discuss that. But for those who haven't, you can Google it after this presentation. But much like San Antonio, Chicago has a huge life expectancy gap between several neighborhoods, one including Inglewood, the neighborhood that is my home. And a recent report just came out about this life expectancy gap that is not 18 years like you have here, but 30, 30 years. And it's between Inglewood and a neighborhood that's nine miles north called Street Review. And so today I'm going to talk to you not only about this life expectancy gap, but also FolditMap and how this project I've created has inspired Chicagoans to bridge this gap. So as I talk about FolditMap, I want you to think about how you came to live in your neighborhood. What influenced that decision? Who did you talk to? Because in addition to the life expectancy gap in Chicago between those two neighborhoods, we are also dealing with severe segregation. And so how I came to grow up in Inglewood, which is a predominantly Black neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, where most people are told to not go, is because of this woman, Marilyn G. Tenney. She is my grandmother. She came to Chicago in the late 1960s on the tail end of the Great Migration, and I'm assuming most people know what the Great Migration is. And she worked a job at the Social Security Office, what most older Black people in Chicago called a good government job. She worked that job for seven years and purchased the building that I grew up in, which is the little building behind that red car. That is a Google Street View photo of the block that I grew up on in Inglewood. So for the ones that know about Inglewood, I'm sure it's very different than what you've been told. Inglewood is a huge neighborhood. It's over six square miles, so the violence that you might have heard happens in Inglewood. It is not throughout the entire neighborhood at all. And so it was on this block where I met my first friends of life, played outside, and we just had a very close knit block. This is how close knit the block was. The woman or the girl that used to bully my mother, her son and I are best friends. So that's how close this block was. And I was living on this block when I had to commute to the north side for high school. And my commute was about 15 miles. And every day, I noticed a lot of things different about my neighborhood. I would get on the train and I would look out the window. And this is in 1993. So there was no cell phones, no GPS. If you were a teenager in Chicago on public transit system, you have to know Chicago's grid map, otherwise you'd get lost. So every day on this commute to make it to school by eight, I would look out the window and I noticed a lot of things were different in my neighborhood than the neighborhood that my high school was in, which was like I said, 15 miles north. I noticed that my neighborhood had a lot of vacant blocks. I didn't understand why. I noticed that my neighborhood had a lot of beauty supply stores in the neighborhood that my high school was in didn't. And I wondered why? Because I like beauty supply stores. And then I also wondered how come my neighborhood only has liquor stores, fast food, restaurants and no cafes? Because after school, I wouldn't hang out at cafes around my high school. But the real lesson began through my friendships. Lane Tech High School, I attended, has the largest student body in Chicago public school system. It has 4,000 students. Yes. So the black population at Lane Tech High School was about 700. That's a whole school in itself. And so what Lane Tech was able to do in the 90s that it can't do now because of a federal law that doesn't allow you to use race as a criteria, Lane Tech was able to curate the racial demographic of the high school to reflect the demographic, the racial demographic of Chicago. So equal percentage black, white, Latino and Asian. So it was at high school that I discovered other neighborhoods of Chicago through my friendships. I met my first group of Latino friends who taught me the difference between being Puerto Rican and Mexican. And they said, you better learn the difference. All right, I got it. And I also met friends who I thought were black like me, but they were from other countries. They lived on the north side, but they were from countries that I had never heard of at the age of 13, like Panama, Belize. And then I also met my friends who were Asian. And they taught me, we are not all Chinese, the Korean, Japanese and Filipino. Because I at that young age thought that Filipinos are Spanish. But my Filipino friends taught me why before history class could. And then I also met friends who were black like me from a whole other side of Chicago called West Side. And I was like, what is the West Side of Chicago? And they would joke and they would name streets and say, it's from Cicero to Laramie and Laramie on down. And I was like, wow, I didn't even know it was streets beyond the street called Cicero. And then my friend Steve Jacovic. That was the first Polish name I had ever said I own. But me and Steve were cool. We talked about hip hop and math class. And we both got bad grades. But that's it. So it was through my friendships at high school that I got to know Chicago's neighborhoods. And I knew that if you were to get to know a neighborhood is through your friendships, you can't listen to what you hear on the news. You have to get to know people and you have to go to their neighborhoods through their eyes. And so as I got older, I reflected on high school and I realized how segregated Chicago was because of my friendships. What you see here is a map of Chicago segregation. Chicago is on a particular grid, which means that we have certain points on the north south side where their actual coordinates match. The blue that you see are the neighborhoods that are predominantly black. The orange that you see are the neighborhoods that are predominantly Latino. The green or yellowish green that you see in the middle and speckled throughout the top are the neighborhoods that are Asian. And the purplish pink that you see are the neighborhoods that are predominantly white. Chicago is the most segregated city in our country. And it has not changed since my grandmother came here. And so as I thought back to my commute to high school, I realized, oh, I wasn't just noticing these changes in neighborhoods. I was actually riding through Chicago segregation. So that's when I started to make the connection between race, investment, and geography. And that's when I realized when you segregate people, it makes it easier to discriminate against them. And these life expectancies that is happening here in San Antonio, existing in Chicago is concrete evidence of discrimination. So I wanted to really help people understand not only my city, but residential segregation and how, when it, how should I say, how these life expectancies are a direct result of racism from years ago. I wanted people to understand that. So I created this project called Folding Map. And Folding Map is really the embodiment of my life. It is showing how you can still make connections with people despite being segregated and how it's through those relationships you can learn how to care for people and how to care for them. So what I did, I remembered those streets that were the same that were in my neighborhood and on the north side. And I photographed those addresses, like 6900 South Ashland and 6900 North Ashland. These two addresses are 18 miles apart, same street, 18 miles apart, but they look very different. 6900 South Ashland is address a street corner in the neighborhood that I grew up in, still live in Inglewood. And it also includes video of those actual streets. But I'm going to show you another address pair, 6300 South Polina and 6,330 North Polina. Again, 18 miles apart. The South Polina address is in Inglewood and those residents who live on that block have to deal with vacant lots and boarded up homes. While 6,300 North Polina, all of the homes are lived in. It's beautiful. So beautiful that everyone is proud and a lot of people have the American flag there. As I was taking photos of these addresses that included people's homes, I started meeting the people who live in homes. And I wish I could tell you that when I started this project, I had planned to have people meet each other, but no. I just wanted to photograph the addresses and I talked to people. But it came a point, people coming out of their house asking, why are you photographing my house? So I had to explain to them. So then I just decided, what would you like to meet each other? And to my surprise, they agreed. So these are people that I will soon call math toys. 5,400 South Hermitage resident Maurice and 6,400 North Hermitage residents John and Paula. Again, 18 miles apart, but they live on the same street. And yes, they are as different as they look. But they decided to meet through the project. And I swear if Maurice, John, and Paula Silverstein can get together, have a conversation, everyone can. So I'm going to play for you a clip of the questions that I asked all of the math twins, some of which were, how do you describe your neighborhood? The same question that I asked you all, how did you come to live in your neighborhood? What's missing in your neighborhood? What do you have in your neighborhood that you're proud of? And then of course the big money question, how much did your house cost? How much did you pay for rent? Because you can't talk about things like life expectancy, amenities without talking about the price of a house. So I'm going to play for you a clip of them answering the question of what's missing in your neighborhood. Some type of center for the youth to kind of go hang out at or have some some things to do when they get out of school or to be able to be exposed to different artistic options to just just kind of give them something to do aside kind of like hanging outside and finding different ways or getting into trouble. But those trouble even being the option because if you have nothing to do of course it's like there's trouble rating right over there, so yeah. Yeah, a lot of our neighbors are not here. I mean I'm sure I'm sure we could think of something but so like I would say they are residents who live on the same street 18 miles apart and in Chicago the zero point is in the middle downtown. So if you were to fold Chicago's map the neighborhood staff of touch is my neighborhood of Inglewood and the neighborhood that John Paula live in which is called Rogers Park, another neighborhood called Anderson and Edgewater. So now I'm going to introduce you to another map twin Bridget and Carmen. Carmen is the Black woman who lives 6400 South Winchester and Bridget is right there with her son Juby lives 5600 North Winchester and I jokingly refer to them as the women of Winchester because when they first met each other they immediately started complimenting each other on their lipstick and earrings and so I'm going to play for you just a short clip of me asking them the question of what did it mean to meet your map twin. For me we look different but we want the same thing. We live different places but we want the same thing so it gives me a validation that everybody want the same thing. Most people want the same thing although we're on different size of the tread. I could agree more. Yeah I feel like I really enjoyed when you came to our house but this is my far way more important to me. I mean I knew I liked you immediately the minute you opened your door but it's true I feel like we've shared so many similarities as we've sat here you know of wanting the same thing. I'm grateful because you created an opportunity to just deepen that sense of of care for other people and hopefully the project wouldn't that just be there. Hopefully someone will see the project and want it to branch out to other areas. Yes. Is there anything else you all want to add? We're friends now. Exactly. We're friends. We're going to hang out. I can't wait. So mind you this was recorded over a year ago so I definitely have to share with Carmen that it did branch out. It branched out to you all here through your Somos neighbors project and I'm just really delighted to be able to be here with you all and encourage you to participate in this wonderful project and to remind you that bridging the gap can be just as simple as meeting your distant neighbor whether they are down the street across the expressway or nine miles away and just getting to know someone who has a different lived experience then you never know where that relationship can go and you also don't know how it can expand your way of thinking and more importantly teach you a different way to care because it's our responsibility to learn how to care for each other and figure out a way to fold whatever map we are on so that we can just touch each other's lives. So thank you so much. Can we get another hand for Tanika? You'll see as we go through this that is a little bit of an inspiration from that. It's such a great project and we'll do a quick little demo here of what we put together in our defined matches here in San Antonio and see how those things are how our neighborhoods are very similar but very different in a lot of ways too. So when we first go to the site there are demo stations outside that you can go and test us on as well if you get done seeing this but when you first go to the site we have a design here that was put together by TreeView and this is beautiful. So when you first go to the site you see that we have an introduction to the project. We do have the site both in English and Spanish so when you click over to Spanish it does change everything over into a Spanish language. So as we scroll down what we start to see is well the first part of the product is that we went through and did some featured stories where we went out and interviewed people in the neighborhood in their own neighborhoods across many different neighborhoods throughout the city. We did have three six featured stories that we put together. As you click through you can go through and read as people talk about what brings them joy about their neighborhoods and they talk about how they got there and just these really great stories that were put together. As we scroll down we get into the part to where you're finding your own match so you can do this in two ways you can either put in an address or you can also type in landmarks like parks or whatever school that's in your neighborhood. It's basically meant to come have a find where you are at. So here I put in 320 Adams that's a neighborhood that's an address in this neighborhood here. It puts it down in the under your neighborhood so it's found by neighborhood here and then we have a match neighborhood that's always in yellow so the pink is always our neighborhood yellow. If you don't have an address you can select a map you can zoom in and actually just click right on the map and click submit and that will find the neighborhood that way as well. So this is a different way to go and find it if you don't have an address or a landmark you want to click. So as we scroll down what it does is it tells us how our two neighborhoods are similar our address and then this neighborhood that we don't know where it is yet right. So we see that it's very similar in things like occupied housing units, housing cost burden that's spending over 30 percent of your income in housing costs, multi-generation households with grandparent and parent and child are living in the same household. Our two neighborhoods are very similar in those ways. It also has user uploaded photos so what this is is when you go in I'll show this this part of the functionality a little bit but you can go in and see photos that were uploaded for instance of that neighborhood and you can go through and scroll and see what those are in there when neighborhoods have been included in there. You can also go through and do the same thing for the other neighborhood that's passed there too. So the point is to say that we have a lot of positive photos of like you know kids playing in parks, barbecues, those types of things to see how we are very similar across these two neighborhoods. As we scroll down we then we get into the parts where we're also very different. So the neighborhood that I entered in and into the match neighborhood has 8.3 different 8.3 year difference between our two neighborhoods and life expectancy right. As we scroll down we can see other things that make us different that correlated with life expectancy of things like look at per capita income on the top right. This neighborhood here is much higher than my match neighborhood. Things like bachelor degree or higher. When we get into health insurance between ages of 18 to 64, dental visits among adults, things with sleep patterns sleeping less than seven hours right. This is all data information we collect for these neighborhoods and then we're able to do this comparison. At the end as we scroll down we get a map. The shading is of life expectancy in Bear County for neighborhoods and we can see where our neighborhood is compared to the neighborhood that we match to right. So now we get a geographic location on where exactly the neighborhood that we've just been going through and looking at and we can see where those two differences are and you can also see the difference in shading between the two life expectancies of those two neighborhoods. We do allow users to go in. You can also we match you to the mayor or you put in we match to the five closest neighborhoods so you can explore further if you're interested in seeing what other neighborhoods are also similar to you but also have a much different life expectancy than your own neighborhood. At the end is close the gap so what do we do about this right. We have three different ways that we are putting stuff up there for what you can do. There's things like county health rankings to learn more. SA speak up. We can do like SA 2020 through type form. We have SA 2020 for a volunteer and donating santonia.gov, bear.org, also vote 411. So a lot of different resources that you can get now at the bottom so it's once you once you've done this what can I do about it. This is how we're putting those resources we're able to go through and see what those things are. And so for the for the photo part of the user submission just a quick show that you can go and click on upload your own photos and what this allows you to do is you can go in you can get some information around sharing your photos. Again this is both in English and Spanish as well. You can click on the image upload image go through and find your photos if you want to upload. Now you can put it in a description so what that does is helps us to identify what that photo is and in case we need any of that information. We do have a photo share policy that you can check out too and we can click and submit that in and now what we need to know is where that photo was taken right so we need to be able to connect that with the neighborhood so when you're going through and those photos are popping up we know which neighborhood I'm going to attach it to. So you can either do that by typing in and in this case I'm typing in Chris Park which is right around the corner from here so if I took a photo around Chris Park I would go and locate it there. I can go in and see to make sure that's in the right spot. I can submit that and then we ask for some contact information if you're going to give us not required it's optional. What it does we need to follow up for anything if there's something we want to ask but just give us the ability to do that and then we can click submit and it goes in through a process where we go through and can check them and then start approving we want to make sure that you know photos are appropriate that are going into them so they won't go immediately but we will go through it and start approving those so at this point we'll move on to the next next section and back over to Paulie. Hello again. So as part of the demonstration and continuation of it we would like to now put some human faces to the data that you just saw into some of these neighborhoods. So for this part of the program I want to introduce Becca McNeil. She's going to lead our resident conversation. She's a native of San Antonio and journalist and a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor and Texas Tribune among the other communication outlets. We're honored to have her work be part of our summer neighbors and to lead this part of the program. With her we also have two San Antonio residents Suana Chambers and Mateo Trevino who have agreed to come forward and share some of their stories and experiences in their neighborhood. So please don't be welcoming Becca and Suana and Mateo. Okay. Hi everybody. So I have the pleasure of meeting several San Antonians. Oh, she's just going to sit right over here. You can also stand over here. So through the through this project and through reporting I have the joy of meeting my people across various foals in the map and it's always delightful to get people talking about where they live and why they live there and what they love and what they wish was different. So I thought that the folks at CI now asked us to maybe recreate what some of those moments look like and since I already know these guys, they don't know each other. And so I've already heard Mateo's pinch hitting for Councilman Sandoval who participated and Mateo facilitated that and so I was familiar with the project. But anyway, they are going to have one of those conversations with each other and I'm kind of going to facilitate it because to spare everyone the awkwardness of the first time having these conversations. So with that, we're going to lead off with tell me we're going to borrow some questions from Mootonica's project. What brought you to your neighborhood? Why your first, why do you live or where do you live and then why do you? So I'll go first. So I live at Cadillac Lofts, which if you're not familiar with the downtown apartment scene, it's next to the Central Library and it's in excess of the river water. How I got there, has anybody driven on Vandero Road? I think I just have a really significantly low pressure point or pain point for that kind of stuff and I decided I didn't want to drive on that road. I wanted to drive as less, as least often as possible. So I had the overcorrected really severely and came downtown. But I love it. I'm a five minute walk from the river walk. The library, I can almost pay my fees conveniently at the library. I can bike and walk to work. Can't bus just because the weird way the routes are, but great amenities, travel options, and a lot less time in my car. Sounds just like your live branch. Tell us about your neighborhood. So I live in the unincorporated part of Converse, Texas. So my address is Converse, but San Antonio is also part of the address. Neither the SAP or Police More Converse be come to my house if I ever needed something. The Sheriff would have to do it. So I moved there because when I graduated from TOU, I started teaching and I got a job in Jetson ISD at Metzger Middle School. And I wanted to live in the community where I was working. So I bought a house that was about two minutes from my school. It literally was on the same street. So I taught there for four years I was about Jetson and then I moved away. But I moved there because I specifically wanted to see my kids, my students outside of school. I wanted to know how they were living. And I wanted to make sure that I could connect to them in many different ways. The other pieces I wanted to live, they're black people. I am from San Antonio. I grew up on the southeast side. I'm a family from the east side. And I just feel more comfortable where I'm who I'm represented. And in San Antonio, we're just not represented except for in large quantities on the east side. And now on the northeast side where I'm at. So is this still convenient for work? Oh no, no. There is nothing convenient about really where I'm at. I'm going to be in the car at least 20 miles or 30 minutes no matter where I'm going. I have to come into San Antonio literally every day. And so like the school where I work now is 30 minutes. The doctor's appointments where my kids go all at least 30 minutes. So it's not convenient in the least in terms of making my life easier. But I feel comfortable there and I feel connected. Do you have a lot of comfort and connectivity downtown? I don't know if there's comfort. Yes, I would describe it though as there's a lot of serendipity downtown which I love. A lot of my colleagues work downtown and so when I am going to and from work I get to see them entering or exiting the bus or from the bus or occasionally passing me out in the car. And it's these little interactions that are unplanned. They're low stress. They're really just really pleasant with folks. I would say yes. There is a lot of that comfort. Maybe it's the guy in the leasing office that I see in the morning or one of the employees in the parks department, the city's parks department lives on my floor. I get to see, I get to just wave at him sometimes and make a comment about this wind or something or a bolted in all of a sudden. What are the relationships like at your neighborhood? On my street you know the kids are always outside playing and stuff like that and so we do support each other. One time I thought I closed my garage and I totally did not close my garage and so my neighbor came over and I closed it for me and then when I got home she was like hey you just wanted you to know you love your garage open. I wasn't sure as I closed it. I was like great because I was gone all day. And so we don't necessarily may not like know each other's names but we see each other. Like we know who live on our street. We know whose children belong at what house when the kids are outside playing. Like there's a parent out there sometimes it's me sometimes my husband sometimes you know another parent down the street. The parents play basketball with the kids outside as we live in our cul-de-sac. And so there's a connectedness there and then everyone just they use next door. Oh next door. Interesting place. But I would say for all of the craziness that's on next door there are people who do watch each other and and take care of each other and make sure that everything is where it needs to be. I will say I like the connectivity you described a lot better than mine because I'm trying to think what's the apartment analog to leaving the garage door open. This this week actually I left my laundry in the in I mean I've got there's a communal washer dryer space I went to the to get my laundry out of the dryer and it's like a 10 30 on a Sunday night I'm ready to go to sleep and somebody had taken it out for me very courteously and then put it on the floor behind kind of behind the dryer which is where all the the gums and air dust collects yeah and I I kind of think that's that that's sort of you know I saw your garage door open and I keyed your car 82 years and Juana's has 77 years and if you were guessing what accounts for that difference in your neighborhood what do you think explains that difference super putting them on the spot right now because either of them work in public health I would say one where I'm at there are a lot of book restores like multiple within probably five miles of each other hospitals not so much like we have to I drive when my daughter got sick we would either drive downtown like the Santa Rosa hospital or all the way to Stone Oak like 30 minutes going 30 minutes so I but we do have some urgent care facilities now they love go the nose ups we've got like a few of those now near us so I would say probably fast food can bring there um so I wouldn't uh Tanika uh was talking about like what the neighborhood looks like versus another neighborhood like yep that's where I'm at all those things um and I think that would probably have something to do with it I mean of course we've got the income disparity of where we are um I mean it's not like as work it's not worse than some other parts of San Antonio but um but it's bad uh my guess on this age 82 years is higher than I expected glad for that um I would I would assume you still have to take care of yourself and I am there goes all the relief I felt I think that has to do I think it has to do with you do have options for active transportation um there are a couple of really nice parks in the area there's two parks right across the street for me and then if I wanted to venture further there's San Pedro Park there's the Riverwalk there's Bracken Ridge nearby so I think there's at least compared to when I lived outside uh on Vendera and Bilbo Road uh there's just more opportunity to be outside without having to make the decision oh I want to go to the park and I'm going to drive 10 minutes there it's very much uh I find it more spontaneous now for me to just walk outside without really thinking about it because the cost is so low right 30 seconds gets to the park I would say that's another thing we have a park in our subdivision for the kids for small um but my community doesn't really have a sidewalk um and so kids can't walk they should well actually can't walk to school so they get fussed to school um because there are the sidewalks aren't there and again I'm in the unincorporated part so I don't know part of that is like nobody wants to own it whose responsibility is it to put it there they don't know right um it's definitely not my responsibility but um that's part of it um and I think that's just if I were to drive down 78 like it's just not friendly to people who walk um I didn't see a lot of runners right no we did like occasionally people run on busy but it's dangerous because there's not really a designated space for them to do that so really have to be very attentioned um on Saturday mornings and stuff like that um because it's not really friendly to be outside and though it's dark because it's really dark at night because we don't have strings like is there a cool 13-mile connected runway here that maybe goes through like the entire city and all our historical landmarks that's the problem uh there's something about that yeah yeah something like that um so last thing if you could change your neighborhood in any way to better meet your needs what would you change don't give like this is not an hour long detailed like don't worry about your spreadsheet but give me your one or two things that you think would take your neighborhood from the neighborhood you chose to the neighborhood experience affordable entertainment where I'm at it's uh my experience of walking out of my apartment is I look around and there's a couple of sort of dilapidated houses and a couple of shuttered uh commercial buildings and then some like really low key bars that I'm not sure I are actually still open I want to do something fun in the area um my my choices are really stay home and play board games which is a great option or go to like a nice fancy bar or something I don't know spend a lot of money I'd like a middle like a middle option for board game cafe maybe that's a neat one maybe just a cafe right um I am I would love to have like more opportunities for my kids to do things um I am in education and so I'm always trying to find what kind of enrichment activities exist for my children and every time I'm googling you know swim classes for me or yoga class whatever I have to leave my community to do with it um there's just not a lot of option for my kids for summer programs for any of that everything's downtown or UTSA or you know just a place that if I didn't have a reliable vehicle my children would be able to go there and I think that's another piece that we can't get into it's like I am on the end of the spectrum where I can get to the thing that I want to get to um but a lot of people who live there can not and so there those options are even worse than them because they are not as annoucing aren't as accessible to them so I have more opportunities for my children to be able to do things um and I don't know I would just be that you know for the most part it's just I want to be able to do and have fun and always know that oh let's go play on this and let's go to this park that's really nice or let's go take swim class I don't have to take it all the way to stomach up to take a swim class or anything like that so thank you guys thank you and thank you everyone thank you so much Chawanna and Theo and Becca um I do want to point out the things that are on your the cards that are on your seat uh we do have one that's an overview card that kind of talks about the project um there's another one that's specifically for the photo uploader it steps on how to um take photos of your neighborhood uploaded into the uh into our site um we have that there's four of them because there's two of them are in English and two of them are in Spanish so they don't have all of them available so in closing uh we have a long ways to go while our neighborhoods are separated by um on many issues things like income segregation uh racial and ethnic segregation ongoing and equity with local investment uh highways and car dependent transportation systems uh and of course life expectancy was up to 18 years just over 18 years depending on where you're living in the county uh so there's a lot of work that has to be done uh so let's show that if we can put the gap in life expectancy between our neighborhoods out there and make it information that's available to people through sites like this and put that information in people's hands and show how conditions in neighborhoods are systematically different uh and get that information out to people at really levels of playing field right a lot of people then have access to information that they didn't have access to before we want to get people involved that haven't been engaged before if you haven't seen uh Rick Salon his TED talk he talks about when he was when he was uh going out door to door and knocking on doors to try to get votes um in that TED talk he says that um his uh political advisors were basically saying go to places with high voter turnout right and when it comes down to it uh he was skipping over a lot of native people that have never been asked to come out and be engaged before right and so those are the things we need to think about like if you don't come out and ask somebody uh to be engaged then will they ever be engaged so how is anything going to change without getting all communities involved into this um let's connect people with actions that they can take to change neighborhood conditions right so those that learn and speak the thing at the very bottom of the site those connections and things that we can do and we need to make those changes happen let's think so what we want to do is encourage you to integrate these actions into your own community initiatives if there's something that you're working on um we're willing to talk and we want to figure out how any of this stuff if it looked interesting to you if it's something that you really wanted to incorporate let's talk and figure out how we can really make this work and anything that you're working on in the community as well and then most of all let's help this community and our leaders uh see that every neighborhood is in some way unique and beautiful right every neighborhood in this in this county has its own unique thing so let's really push that message out there so i thank you for coming out tonight uh please stick around have conversations with your neighbors you have name tags on um they have a number which tells you which we just mentioned but tells you what your the life expectancy of your neighborhood is based on from your registration we've color coded them so if you try to make a point to go and speak to somebody with a different color than your own because they live in a different neighborhood than you with a different life expectancy we encourage you to take photos of your neighborhoods as well and please take photos out here you have to make Sam sign into all that and please enjoy your day thank you