This month, people across the globe celebrated World CLT Day, an annual effort to “spotlight the diverse CLT community, showcase impactful projects to peers worldwide, and celebrate affordable housing, land justice, and community empowerment.” Here at Rondo CLT, we couldn’t have dreamed of a better way to celebrate than welcoming the Liberated Land Trust Tour to learn more about our work.

It’s easy to believe Robin Hickman-Winfield when she says, “It’s my time.” Right now, you can see her beaming from the cover of Insight News, reflecting on the artistic legacy and current exhibit of her great uncle — and greatest teacher — Gordon Parks. The owner of SoulTouch Productions, she’s working on a film project that’s so exciting she can’t disclose the details and is about to publish her first art book documenting her innovative work with dolls.

So, with Women’s History Month in March, it seemed like the perfect time to connect with Robin—a leaseholder with the Rondo Community Land Trust—to learn more about her work as a narrative historian and community educator.

While the nation turns its attention each February to African American ingenuity, at Rondo Community Land Trust, we honor — and make — Black history everyday. 

As a CLT, we’re part of a movement that was born out of the vision and resistance of Black people in the segregated South who knew they needed more than the right to participate in American democracy—they needed the ability to own and control land to shape their own collective futures.