Podcast appearances and mentions of derek avery

This week, Drew engages in a compelling discussion with Derek Avery, the candidate for Dallas County Commissioner District 3. Derek's campaign emphasizes the concept of revitalization while steering clear of gentrification. The conversation proved to be enlightening, shedding light on his real estate development experience, its influence on his political ideology, and how he intends to leverage this expertise for the betterment of the district and the broader Dallas community. This conversation serves as a significant contribution to the discourse on community development and the essential factors required for communities to flourish.You can find Derek Avery here:IG | @derekavery1IG | @derekfordallaswww.derekfordallas.comwww.coirdevelopment.comVisuals of this episode are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnkYBkLv5Svd4g4dbHjOcog

 CEOs around the country for the last year and a half now have been seeking to have their employees talk about race and the kind of adjustments that can be made in the workplace.  This episode focuses on that.  Dr. Enrica Ruggs, Associate Professor of Management at the University of Houston and Dr. Derek Avery, C.T. Bauer Chair of Inclusive Leadership at the University of Houston will explore how to discuss the complex and urgent issues of race while in the workplace.  Although we'll speak explicitly about black and white race relations, the ideas can apply when considering other groups that experienced discrimination. Their BRAVE framework highlights the importance of explicitly talking about race and provides advice on how to begin productive workplace conversations. Tips include the rationale for building conversational competence with an approach that illustrates what inclusion really looks like in committed organizations. 

In this AskPsychSessions feature, Marianne speaks with Derek Avery from the University of Houston about the value of including I/O psychology topics in the introductory psychology course.

A conversation on how COVID-19 is shining a light institutional injustice and systemic racism with C. T. Bauer Chair of Inclusive Leadership Derek Avery and Associate Dean of Research Vanessa Patrick.

In the eighteenth installment of the Conversation Series, we speak with Dr. Derek Avery, Ph.D., the C. T. Bauer Chair of Inclusive Leadership in the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston.

Real estate developer Derek Avery sits down with CivicBrand founder Ryan Short to discuss revitalization without gentrification and the role of preservation in development.

Derek Avery is a community-conscious real-estate developer from Dallas, TX, whose work is rooted in the mantra of “revitalization without gentrification.” His company, COIR Holdings, takes a holistic approach to the neighborhoods it works in: not just building affordable homes, but forging relationships and seeking to lift up both the place and the people who already live there. Derek chats with Strong Towns founder and president Charles Marohn, and takes viewers’ live questions in this Ask Strong Towns: Celebrity Edition AMA webcast. Questions discussed: 1:15 How’d you get into development? 4:05 Explain revitalization without gentrification. How is this not just a slogan, but a viable third way and something that you live and practice? 10:20 Talk about how you hire people locally, and what it means in a struggling neighborhood to create opportunity for the people who are there. 13:10 Negative perceptions of developers are widespread—“They just go into a poor neighborhood and exploit the people who are there.” How do you combat these perceptions? 16:00 Tell me a bit about your vision for what a revitalized neighborhood is and can be. How is Tulsa’s former Greenwood district an inspiration for you? 19:40 Efforts in early 2000s to expand low-income and minority homeownership backfired with the rise of predatory lending, often through subprime mortgages. How is your vision of building community ownership different from that? Why is it important to do it incrementally? 23:05 How do you identify a good project to pursue? 30:30 How can I find and encourage community developers to revitalize a small town? How do I grow my own Derek Avery in my own community? 34:25 What would you say to leaders in a community looking to make room for someone like you? 37:15 It seems like a lot of times, when a neighborhood is experiencing distress, one of our default responses as public officials is to add more regulation and create higher standards. You laughed at that. Why is that the wrong answer? 43:10 There’s a notion that all developers are rich, connected to rich people, or hucksters of some sort. People don’t understand the financing part, and so development makes them uncomfortable—can you help us understand? 47:20 How do you create positive momentum with development without triggering an increase in property valuations? Is there a sweet spot where you’re empowering people in a neighborhood, but not flooding it without outside investors trying to exploit that home-grown momentum? 51:30 The new federal Opportunity Zones seem to be targeting the kind of neighborhood that would benefit from small-scale development. How do you see that program affecting your work, and is it a positive or negative? 54:55 How does your work fit into the national conversation about race, equity, and righting historical wrongs? 1:01:15 What is your take on the relationship between wealth and power in historically disinvested and disenfranchised communities?

On this episode, we talk with Bianca and Derek Avery of COIR Holdings about what it means to be a responsible developer – especially at a time when many people are skeptical of the profession. We talk the difference between a "spreadsheet developer" and a "community developer," and the possibility of "revitalizing" a neighborhood without generating displacement. Then we dig into their holistic approach to sustainable community development that is focused on creating mixed-income neighborhoods. This is part one of our interview. Part two will be available next week! ** The Go Cultivate! podcast is a project of Verdunity. Learn more at verdunity.com. Find more about this and other episodes, and our blog here. (Music in this episode is from Custodian of Records.) https://www.verdunity.com/podcast/episode-29

Derek Avery describes himself as a curious, fidgety, silly-hearted husband and father who has been inadvertently following his heart for years. From retail banking to energy efficiency work, from volunteer youth worker to worship music band leader, from personal development to spiritual formation, he has been on a journey of understanding about how he wants to be in this world, and has found that the key may be starting with vulnerability and self acceptance. Derek is the host of the Badass Vulnerability podcast where he challenges societal expectations and questions what it means to be authentically open and aware. In this episode, Derek examines how he navigates family dynamics amidst chronic pain, the power of resilience and endurance, and how he finds ways to still be of service to others. You can read the full show notes at www.thisisnotwhatiordered.com