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Arts Along Urban Waterways Issue 3 Spring 2015

Katrina Lashley

Flock of Fins, based on the work of the late Marvin Fin, is popular with young visitors. Waterfront Development Corporation

As the articles in this issue show, the Arts, just like environmentalism and expressions of Faith, play an integral role in the revitalization and creation of sustainable communities and waterways.Urban Waterways Newsletter Issue 3

About Katrina Lashley

Katrina Lashley is a Program Coordinator at the Anacostia Community Museum and currently leads the museum’s Urban Waterways initiative which documents stakeholder efforts to engage with and improve  urban waterways and their communities through a multitude of perspectives including urban development, urban waterways and diverse populations, community activism, and development and river ecology.  She served as an intern on NMAH’s American Enterprise and a researcher at Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial. Lashley received her B.A. in English Literature and Italian Language at Rutgers University. In 2011 she completed a Master’s in History (Public History track) at American University with a focus on the British Caribbean. In addition to her public history work, Lashley was a teacher of English Literature and Language for thirteen years.