Our mission is to build connections with neighbors to create lively, welcoming, and safe streets through small-scale community events, advocacy, and education.
We envision a Lexington where streets are vibrant public places that bring people together and provide many safe and accessible transportation options.
Our Team
We’re a group of Lexington residents advocating for safer, more vibrant streets.
Officers
Alice Hilton
President
Alice cares deeply about streets as shared public spaces that should be welcoming and safe for everyone. She loves walking, being outside, and riding her bike, especially alongside other people.
Mary Arthur
Treasurer
Mary Arthur is a retired Forest Ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky (UK), where she taught courses in forest ecology, ecosystem ecology and natural resources and trained many MS and PhD students for 30 years. She led the Natural Resources and Environmental Science undergraduate degree program for 10 years, co-founded the Urban Forest Initiative, and co-directed the Greenhouse Living-Learning Community. Mary’s current projects include serving on the Lexington, Kentucky Tree Week Planning team; co-leading a pro-democracy group called Gathering for Democracy, talking to people about the role of forests in global carbon cycling; and collaborating on the Climate Conversations team that developed the Climate Conversations card deck. Living Streets Lexington embodies the same horizontal activism and team-focused organizing favored by all of her current projects and has the potential to transform Lexington’s street one project at a time.
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