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Steve Coleman
Executive Director, Washington Parks & People
Washington, D.C.
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Stephen W. Coleman is the Executive Director of Washington Parks & People, a grassroots alliance of D.C. community parks partnerships. He has helped to launch park partnerships across the District of Columbia and surrounding region, and he has advised urban park programs across the country. Called "an evangelist for parks" by the former director of the National Park Service, he has helped mobilize thousands of volunteers in support of community park reclamation, beginning over a decade ago with the dramatic transformation of Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park from one of the capital's most violent parks into one of its safest. (See related Success Story.) In 1994, the President of the United States honored Mr. Coleman and Friends of Meridian Hill co-chair Josephine Butler, with the National Partnership Leadership Award. In 1998, he served as Co-Chair of the District of Columbia Mayor's Transition Committee on Parks and Recreation. In 1999, he led the establishment of the Josephine Butler Parks Center inside the former Hungarian Embassy - a permanent 18,000-square-foot "greenhouse" for seeding community reclamation of the District of Columbia's long forgotten community green spaces.
Mr. Coleman is currently an appointed member of the Advisory Committee on Greenway Planning for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. He has won numerous honors, including commendations from the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, the D.C. Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the D.C. Preservation League, the National Park Foundation, the National Park Service, the United States Park Police, and the President of the United States.
He is former program director of the Better World Society, an international environmental advocacy organization that produced award-winning education television programming for worldwide broadcast via Cable News Network, PBS, and other networks. Steve was educated at Haverford College and New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Contact Info: washingtonparks@aol.com
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