Social Impacts of Development on Treasure Island/Below the Bridge Documentary

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Project Basics 

Project Sponsor: Environmental Science, Policy & Management (ESPM) 

Amount Awarded: $1,128

Grant Awarded: Fall 2021

Project Status: Complete

Project Description 

We want to make a documentary on the transformation of Treasure Island from a historical sacrifice zone to a site of intense development and gentrification. We are interested in the impacts that the development plan will have on current residents of the island, as well as businesses and organizations located there. We recognize that this case is likely one of environmental injustice, as the low-income, underserved, predominantly African-American and Latinx communities are going to be the first to face the repercussions of this gentrification. Our documentary will require us to conduct several interviews, and we hope to use the money from this grant, if gifted, to compensate those who participate in our project. Because we plan to enter communities that we are not a part of and “take” information for the purpose of our research, it is important to present a gesture of compensation that would directly benefit those involved.

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