Casting Lines, Building Trust: Listening Through Crabbing, Gardening, and Story

For this outreach effort, I joined Hampton resident Fred Henry for a day of crabbing and gardening—not to extract data, but to build trust.

The natural setting invited open dialogue about flooding, racism, land use, and survival. The insight was clear: community engagement isn’t about surveys or meetings. It’s about showing up with respect. This one-pager reframes outreach as a relationship, not a request