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Podcast: American Shoreline Podcast Network
Episode: Organizing the Working Waterfront: A Tour of Two Coasts | Working Waterfronts
Description: Welcome to the Working Waterfronts Podcast, a collaboration between the National Working Waterfront Network and the American Shoreline Podcast Network. In this inaugural episode, host Ashley Bennis talks with three working waterfront organizers from both the East and West coasts. First up, Ashley welcomes Roland Lewis, President and CEO of Waterfront Alliance in NYC.  Under his leadership, the Waterfront Alliance has organized a powerful constituency, instituted new programs, helped create a new waterfront plan for NYC, and made the  Alliance  a leading waterfront policy organization in the state and nation.  Then, Ashley speaks with John Dire from the grass-roots grow...