We hosted a two-part webinar & discussion focused on building the bridge (a metaphorical bridge!) of the urban-rural divide with Anthony Flaccavento, co-founder of the Rural-Urban Bridge Initiative. The Rural-Urban Bridge Initiative (RUBI) works to “defuse hostility and contempt, find mutual understanding and common ground, and build multi-racial working and middle-class rural solidarity between rural, suburban, and urban dwellers.”
Part 2 (February 8th) helped participants develop strategies to overcome the underlying economic, political and cultural causes of the rural-urban divide.