Featured Guests
The Rural Initiative Project blog was started to give awareness of historic preservation, city revitalizations and other projects going on in cities and states across the southeast by RIPI members. It is our goal to feature a guest writer for our blog. For the month of July, our first guest writer is a special one:
Stephanie Deutsch is a writer and critic living in Washington, D.C. She grew up in the Washington area and overseas (in New Zealand and France) and has degrees from Brown and Harvard universities. Her husband, David Deutsch, is a great grandson of philanthrpist Julius Rosenwald, which introduced her to the story of the remarkable collalboration between educator Booker T. Washington and Rosenwald and the 5,000 structures that were the result. Her book, You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South, will be published by Northwestern University Press in December. Stephanie serves as chairman of the grants committee of the Capitol Hill Community Foundation which raises and gives away $250,000 a year in small grants. She has four grown children.
