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Recording of WalkBoston’s 31st Annual Celebration & Golden Shoe Awards (March 24, 2021)

Recording of WalkBoston’s 31st Annual Celebration & Golden Shoe Awards (March 24, 2021)

Recording of WalkBoston’s 31st Annual Celebration & Golden Shoe Awards, held on Zoom on March 24, 2021. (Inspired? You can still give and be a part of the event’s fundraising effort!)

Agenda/Timeline:

  • Year in Review – Stacey Beuttell, Executive Director
  • A look back – Emma Yashar, Outgoing Board President
  • Looking ahead – Betsy Johnson, Incoming Board President
  • Presentation of Golden Shoe Awards
    • Karen Cord Taylor – longtime WalkBoston board member
    • MassDOT Shared Streets and Spaces Program (with special recognition to the Barr Foundation and Solomon Foundation); accepted by Kate Fichter
    • Frank Caro (in memoriam) – accepted by Carol Caro
  • Panel Discussion (starts at 0:28:06​)
    • Tracy A. Corley, PhD – Director of Research and Partnerships at the Conservation Law Foundation
    • Mike McGinn – Executive Director at America Walks
    • Jodie Medeiros – Executive Director at Walk San Francisco
    • Alexander Train, AICP – Director, Department of Housing and Community Development for the City of Chelsea
  • Call to Action: Say THANKS for Shared Streets and Spaces – Brendan Kearney, Deputy Director

Thank you for all your support over the years!

Recording of WalkBoston’s 30th Annual Celebration & Golden Shoe Awards (September 23, 2020)

Recording of WalkBoston’s 30th Annual Celebration & Golden Shoe Awards (September 23, 2020)

Recording of WalkBoston’s 30th Annual Celebration & Golden Shoe Awards, held on Zoom on September 23, 2020. (Inspired? You can still give and be a part of the event’s fundraising effort!)

Agenda/Timeline:

  • Introduction/Welcome – Emma Yashar, Board President
  • Year (and a half) in Review – Stacey Beuttell, Executive Director
  • Project Highlights / “One Minute, One Slide” [all staff, pre-recorded video]
  • Corporate/Foundation Thank You – Brendan Kearney, Deputy Director
  • Fund-A-Need – Matt Lawlor, Board Secretary
  • Presentation of Golden Shoe Awards – Stacey Beuttell
    • Boston Public Library – David Leonard, President
    • Coalition for a Better Acre/Lowell Walking Champions – Billy Heath
    • Age Friendly Walking / Tufts Health Plan Foundation – Nora Moreno Cargie
    • Age Friendly Walking / Boston Age Strong Commission – Emily Shea
  • Keynote Introduction – Stacey Beuttell
  • Video Introduction – Dorothea Hass & Ann Hershfang [pre-recorded video]
  • Keynote Speaker – Mark Fenton, a nationally recognized public health, planning, and transportation consultant, an advocate for active transportation, and former host of the “America’s Walking” series on PBS television.
  • Question & Answer – Mark Fenton & Stacey Beuttell

Thank you for all your support over the years!

BU School of Public Health students create WalkMassachusetts Network video

BU School of Public Health students create WalkMassachusetts Network video

This past semester, Boston University School of Public Health students in Professor Kim Kronenberg’s class SB833: “Designing and Implementing a Health Communication Campaign,” engaged WalkBoston as a client to create a video to promote the WalkMassachusetts Network. The goal of the course is to give students health communication background and hands-on experience. The video was the tool they used to learn about the health communication process.

Thanks to MPH students Sharon, Shweta, TraciAnn & Benji for their work on this effort, Professor Kronenberg for inviting us to participate — and thanks to everyone who contributed constructive feedback to their questions along the way!

Check out the video they produced below with the help of Lynn Weissman, Videography and technology instructor, and get involved with the WalkMassachusetts Network.

Chinatown Boston Pedestrian Safety Campaign Video

Chinatown Boston Pedestrian Safety Campaign Video

In summer 2016, WalkBoston worked with students from AsianCDC’s A-VOYCE program on a walk audit and to make observations, gather data, and collect stories from people about dangerous walking conditions in Chinatown. The students created a video and presented their findings to the Boston Transportation Department. This youth-led campaign resulted in tangible, structural improvements such as doubling the walk light timing to better accommodate elders, children and individuals with physical disabilities.

One minute, one slide: #ClearCurbCuts snow clearance video

One minute, one slide: #ClearCurbCuts snow clearance video

Below is a “One Minute, One Slide” presentation shared by a member of the WalkBoston staff.
Text provided is as presented at this year’s annual event on March 29, 2018.

Brendan Kearney 

Board member Nina Garfinkle & I contacted Amy Corcoran Hunt, who posted a message to a South End Facebook Group encouraging neighbors to shovel curb cuts to help those that have strollers or wheelchairs. Here’s what ensued:

That’s been viewed over 60,000 times since it was posted in mid-January! (across YouTube, Twitter, Facebook)

We’ve re-shared it after the next few storms & it has received a big response each time.

If anyone is interested in working w/ Amy and others on our newly formed snow clearance committee, please reach out!