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Now our amazing guest: Zahra Ebrahim, the co-founder of Monumental, a social purpose business working to advance equitable city-building and urban development. Earlier this year she also helped start FutureBuilds, a BIPOC Real Estate Development Incubator. She’s currently an Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, a Next City Vanguard Civic Leader, and one of the Urban Land Institute’s WLI Champions. 

Mentioned In this Episode: 

• A refresher on who we are [0:00-2:16]

• Please donate to our GoFundMe! [2:17-5:51]

• Please vote for us for the Anthem Awards! [5:52-7:10]

• Introducing Zahra Ebrahim [7:11-8:26]

• Zahra’s background and journey into this work [8:27-25:17]

• Community engagement and moving at the speed of trust [25:18-31:34]

• Deep and human, not broad and cold [31:35-44:35]

• Do your homework and listen [44:36-53:39]

• What do we preserve and why? [53:40-1:03:20]

• Why diversifying real estate matters [1:03:21-1:10:29]

• Credits [1:10:30-1:11:50]

Credits: 

Thank you to Zahra Ebrahim and Elaine Gant. This episode was edited and mixed by Connor Lynch. Our music is by Adaam James Levin-Areddy. Your hosts are Deqah Hussein-Wetzel and Vanessa Quirk. 

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