Hannah Monroe is a recent Trinity University graduate (2013) with a B.A. in Urban Studies: Public Policy and Issues and minors in Economics, Spanish, and Sociology. She finished her Trinity University Mellon Community Fellow with the SA2020 Neighborhoods and Growth Management cause area and is now working as the SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA and interning at the First Presbyterian Church on a University and Young Adults summer fellowship. In her free time she enjoys kickin' it old school while swing dancing and playing music on her record player.
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 12 | Series Archive On Tuesday, August 19 the San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA) and San Anto Cultural Arts unveiled new murals on the westside. These murals were created with the
Happy belated Fourth of July! Hope you enjoyed your cook-outs and stayed (mostly) out of the sun. I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of a better way to celebrate our country than by helping someone and strengthening a
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 9 | Series Archive Last week the San Antonio Housing Authority celebrated the Grand Opening of a The Park at Sutton Oaks and the addition of a new community garden. Not only
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 8 | Series Archive In this month’s blog I want to share some information about the Action Network working on the SA2020 goals for parks and green spaces in San Antonio. Action
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 7 | Series Archive The EastPoint Neighborhood On March 4, 2014, Mayor Castro unveiled the EastPoint neighborhood: a four square mile area located on the Eastside of San Antonio that geographically encapsulates
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 6 | Series Archive When looking through the SA2020 indicators, you might have noticed something in the Neighborhoods cause area. There is a relatively new indicator: “Improve Housing and Transportation Index”.
This is post 5 in a series. See them all here. Did you know that there is a long-term goal to encircle all of San Antonio in multi-use linear parks? Progress toward that vision is already underway in the construction
Parks are more than just pretty green natural spaces. They serve many purposes beyond what we often see when we play or enjoy a nice picnic in them!
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 3 | Series Archive Over the past month I had the opportunity to sit down with two women who are working within the Choice neighborhood grant to make the eastside a
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 2 | Series Archive As I’ve been working downtown at the San Antonio Housing Authority and interning at First Presbyterian Church, I’ve gotten to take the opportunity to walk to lunch,
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020