Katrina Lashley

Katrina Lashley

Katrina D. Lashley is a program coordinator at Anacostia Community Museum where she leads the Urban Waterways Project, documenting the relationship between urban communities and their watersheds thorough the lenses of civic oversight, community engagement and environmental advocacy.

"American Girl (above: the new doll Evette Peters) was seeking to emphasize to its young audience the importance of being able to envision themselves as part of the larger American story," writes the Smithsonian's Katrina Lashley. "And that vision requires more accessible histories, as well as role models in civic engagement."

Why This American Girl Doll Inspires Environmental Activism

The story of Evette Peters is bolstered by the Anacostia Community Museum's research into Washington D.C.'s local neighborhoods and urban waterways

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