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Chandra Christmas-Rouse is an urban planner, advocate and artist based in Bronzeville, Chicago. A background in community development and environmental justice informs her design approach of working with community stakeholders in a participatory process to support capacity building, achieve place-based solutions and reimagine systems. Chandra also creates participatory projects that engage local Black geographies, histories and spatial imaginaries. In 2020, she created the Maplibs Project which is a living atlas of the spaces that make us feel, remember and imagine community in greater Bronzeville neighborhoods. Through workshops and walking tours, she gathers residents and engages them in intergenerational conversations about past, present and future community spaces in their neighborhoods. She invites them to design spaces that reflect the values, cultures and traditions of their communities.