Urban Releaf ED Kemba Shakur was recently featured on NBCBayArea’s “Bay Area Proud” community affairs program . Reporter Garvin Thomas interviewed Shakur at the Urban Releaf office in North Oakland and joined the UR team for our recent Earth Day Tree-plantings in Fruitvale and East Oakland. “When the subject is trees in the city of

Our inspirational Executive Director, Kemba Shakur, was recently feted by the Arbor Day Foundation, winning the organization’s highest honor, the Morton Award – joining an elite group of arborists which includes Nobel Prize Winner Wangari Maathai. The Arbor Day Foundation was kind enough to host Shakur, Program Manager Kevin Jefferson, and Communications Manager Eric Arnold