{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"We wanted to have not just a building but a beautiful space where our neighbors could come and be seen, valued and heard","description":"The story of Washington DC\u2019s Ward 8, Ward 7 and Anacostia specifically is often told, largely by people who don\u2019t live there, in terms of deficits, both in resources and the community itself. The truth is entirely different. It was home to the Nacotchtank\u2019s indigenous settlements in the 1700s, white Navy Yard workers in the late 1800s, when Black people were barred from living there, and became a hub of African American arts and activism, post white flight, in the 1960s. And while the community has been historically underinvested, its people are resilient. Even today, for example, there are only 3 full-service grocery stores available to some 160,000 residents. Investing in people and communities, as we know, is a policy choice. As my guest Tiffany Williams says on this week\u2019s episode of Power Station, \u201cit\u2019s not a matter of can we, it\u2019s a matter of will we.\u201d As President & CEO of Martha\u2019s Table, which has served the community for 45 years, Tiffany has stewarded in a new and transformative era which includes community members in its program design and priority setting. She is a truly great human and a changemaking leader. Hear her!     ","author_name":"Power Station","author_url":"https:\/\/powerstation.live\/","html":"