James Jiler is the Executive-Director of Urban GreenWorks, a Miami-based non-profit organization, which provides environmental programs and green job training to incarcerated men and women, youth remanded by court to drug rehab and at-risk high-school youth in low-income neighborhoods. The product is more than the formation of hard skills; GreenWorks provides an environmental artscape that blends science education, horticulture therapy and vocational training as a way to connect people to nature, and subsequently to themselves and their community, both inside and outside prison walls. In addition the organization creates programs for communities plagued by poor access to fresh food, blighted and neglected open space, low urban tree cover, and an under-employed population of young adults.
Sessions
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP - Cerasee Farm
CONVERSATION - James Jiler and Anita Franchetti