About the Project
Edgehill is one of Nashville’s most historic and rapidly changing neighborhoods. Over the last five years, the neighborhood grassroots nonprofit Friends of the William Edmondson Homesite Park & Gardens has planted trees in the seven-acre greenspace, establishing a Level 1 Arboretum certified by the Tennessee Urban Forestry Council. As an all-volunteer small grassroots non-profit, their capacity is minimal. Students in this fellowship worked with the organization to help take the arboretum status to a Level 2 certification. These requirements include providing a robust, easy-to-maintain, and user-friendly public-facing online database, GIS mapping, and education platform, to engage the community on this precious urban greenspace and historic site. Fellows learned about GIS technologies, were able to assist neighborhood preservation efforts, and worked alongside a nonprofit to achieve Level 2 certification status for an urban Arboretum.
Mentor
Stacy Curry-Johnson; Alyssa Sklar
Fellows
Sierra Dix; Semmie Lee; Milani Naik
Project
Coming soon!