Sam Tecle
Capturing a Community Amidst Change | Toronto, Ontario
Sam Tecle is an activist, an academic and community worker from Jane and Finch. Having grown up and taught in the community as an educator for over 15 years, Sam is interested in all the ways the community has change and is changing and ensuring that the perspectives and experiences of those most marginalized are always kept front and center in community planning, even amidst all the change.
About the Project
Capturing a Community Amidst Change is a project interested in capturing a community in flux, a community in change. Jane & Finch is more than just an intersection, it is a community made up of many neighbourhoods and diverse people from around the world who have settled here and made this place home. Now in this moment, Jane & Finch is undergoing massive changes, from whole swaths of housing being torn down, to a the Finch West LRT going right through the heart of the community, my project asks the question: in poor Black & racialized communities, who gets to set the agenda for what change looks like?