Organizers from Red Hook Initiative’s (RHI) Public Safety Team joined PREP to kick off this year’s seminar series: Peacebuilding in Our City.

Obi Afriye, a Public Safety Organizer at RHI, and An Doc, a member of the public safety team, provided an overview of the origins and goals of RHI’s Public Safety Program and shared their personal opinions on what a safe Red Hook would look like. They reflected on how our perception of public safety is influenced by our identity and encouraged seminar participants to consider what or who makes them feel safe, or unsafe, and why.

You can read more about RHI’s Public Safety program here, and check out their ethnography project cataloging organizers’ perceptions of public safety here.