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Happy Valentine's Day from RAYO Planning!

Show some love and sponsor materials and meals for our People Powered Planning Academy that is launching next month!

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Flip through to read some of RAYO's successes from 2022! We are so happy to share our progress with our community. Find the full annual report in our Insta bio.

Thank you for your continuous support! We are excited to see what is to come in 2023!

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Last month, we held our final board meeting of 2022 and welcomed two new board members, Emily Cortez and Catherine Rosas. We are excited about all our successful projects this year and our new members’ future contributions to RAYO!

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Please consider purchasing "Paved A Way" to learn how cities are shaped by injustice and how you can play a role in reversing the process. Proceeds contribute to help support RAYO Planning.
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Last night the @gdpcTX honored RAYO Planning as the runner-up for the Dunnigan Community Engagement Award at their 2022 Urban Design Awards. RAYO is grateful to be recognized for our people-powered work.

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On Monday, Victoria was hosted by UNT Alumni, speaking to Dr. Ybarra's ENG 2351 at the event sponsored by the Latino/a Mexican American Studies program. The @UntLmas program highlights how Urban Planning can be used to redress historical disparities.

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Our friends at Casa Guanajuato are accepting donations for their Toy Drive now through December 15th. Please consider donating!

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Today! 5pm

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Did you know art, preservation and planning could be used to protect your barrio (neighborhood)? Join RAYO Planning Co-Founder, Barrio Historian and Cultural Artist, Victoria Ferrell-Ortiz as she speaks at a UNT Alumni spotlight event (read on in post).

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Thank you to everyone that made the first round of community meetings a success in Jackson, Mahon and Dunbar Manhattan Heights! It was great to meet many of y’all, and great to connect with many new folks. We will be back soon, and as always please reach out (read on post).

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And just like that Victoria’s stay for the APT conference in Detroit is nearly done. We are grateful for the opportunity to be able to share about the People Powered Planning Academy for Racial Justice and work we've done in our home of Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas. Read on in post.

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Did you know art, preservation and planning could be used to protect your barrio (neighborhood)? Join RAYO Planning Co-Founder, Barrio Historian and Cultural Artist, Victoria Ferrell-Ortiz as she speaks at a UNT Alumni spotlight event (read on in post).

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RAYO performs consulting services to assist with the creation of neighborhood plans. We conduct extensive community engagement and outreach activities to better understand people’s lived experience and their vision for the neighborhood. We are excited to (read on in post)

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La comida, la pintura facial, la música y la gente fueron excepcionales en el evento del Día de los Muertos Dallas College Mountain View. ¡Nos encanta ver pequeños planificadores de Dallas! ¡Por favor, siempre venga y díganos "hola"!

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The food, face painting, music and people were outstanding at the Dia de los Muertos Dallas College Mountain View event earlier this week. We love seeing repeat Little Planners out in the field! Please always come by and say “hi” to us!

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Last night Evelyn Mayo, Urban Research Fellow at Paul Quinn College, Co-Founder of RAYO Planning and local advocate for environmental justice with Downwinders at Risk, presented "All Hands on Deck: Community Organizing & Research Environmental Justice” (read on in post)

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DAY TWO OF LUGARES 2022: KICKING OFF!!! Watch our Day 2 Spotlight of Monique G. López with Pueblo Planning!

Register here to tune in: https://t.co/qrkn2aOOEY

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LUGARES will be here in 24 hrs! Join today for this free event! https://t.co/qrkn2aOOEY #LatinosPlanAPA #Latinos #Planning #LatinoCommunities #CommunityEngagement #PublicSpace #Equity #Diversity #Inclusion #PublicHealth #Placemaking #Art #EconomicDevelopment #EnvironmentalJustice

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Happening today and tomorrow!

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IT'S GO TIME!!!

Register now for our third annual award-winning division conference, LUGARES: 2022!

When: November 3-4
Where: Virtual
Cost: Free (donations welcome)
Link to register and for more info: https://t.co/qrkn2b5RGY

¡Vámonos!

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Thanks to support from the Getty Foundation, Victoria was selected to be a 2022 Getty Scholar to attend this year’s Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) Conference in Detroit, Michigan. [Read on in post] #APTDetroit2022

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Here’s how RAYO Planning’s co-founder, Victoria, created the “Planners Past Ofrenda”. Así es como la cofundadora de RAYO Planning, Victoria, creó la “Ofrenda de Planificadores del Pasado".