Join the City of Palo Alto for a conversation spanning the panelists’ research interests and personal ties to plants and designed, racially integrated neighborhoods here in Palo Alto and elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. Alexis Madrigal is the co-host of Forum on KQED and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the forthcoming book, The Pacific Circuit, and the proprietor of the Oakland Garden Club. Nanosh Lucas is a Ph.D. candidate whose dissertation focuses on grassroots, multiracial housing cooperatives on the San Francisco Bay Peninsula. Kija Lucas uses photography to explore ideas of home, heritage and inheritance. She is interested in how ideas are passed down and seemingly inconsequential moments create changes lasting generations. Lisa Ellsworth is the Director of Development and Strategy at Minnesota Street Project Foundation. She has worked as a curator, cultural producer, and project manager in contemporary art and design.