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Shaheim DeJesus

June 23, 2024

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Hudson, NY

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Pema Tashi

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Summary:

This interview was conducted with Shaheim DeJesus at the Hudson Area Library in Hudson, New York on June 23, 2024. De Jesus was born and raised in Hudson and is currently a Hudson resident. In 2022, Shaheim launched Unity Now Networks, a local internet service provider, working to resource low-income Hudson residents with affordable internet access. Shaheim shares the challenges of being a small business owner in Hudson. He then discusses the increasing social and economic stratification he observes between multigenerational Hudson residents and recent Hudson transplants . Shaheim elaborates on the tension and local initiatives addressing housing displacement in Hudson today.

Shaheim shares the positive impact which the Hudson Youth Center offered him throughout his early education and adolescence. Columbia-Greene Community College is where Shaheim grew fascinated with the subjects of history, museum work, and physics. Once Unity Now Networks finds organizational footing, Shaheim hopes to travel the world and experience new cultures and ways of life.

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Themes:
Activism and Advocacy
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Local Business
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College
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Hudson Youth Center
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Youth
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Change and Gentrification
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Housing
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Interviewer Bio:
Pema Tashi

Pema Tashi is a graduate of Dickinson College, where she studied U.S. pop-culture and histories of racialization through the lens of post-colonial studies. Her interests include community organizing, intergenerational spaces of leisure, disability justice, and memory work. Pema is based in Brooklyn, NY and works closely with the Tibetan Equality Project in Jackson Heights, Queens.

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English
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