Media
On a national and local level, print and television media have recognized Urban Releaf for it’s accomplishments in the community, as well as, the impact our work is have on a global, environmental level.
NATIONAL
- People Magazine, March 5, 2012 – “She Planted 15,000 Trees” (link)
- People Magazine – “Heroes Among Us: Kemba Shakur Greens Her Oakland Neighborhood”
- NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, 2012 – “Making a Difference: From Concrete Jungle to Urban Oasis” (video)
- NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, 2012 – “Trees Give Immediate Impact”
- HGTV Curb Appeal
LOCAL
- NBC Bay Area Proud, 2013 – “Oakland Woman Transforms City’s Landscape, One Tree At A Time” (link)
- KTVU Bay Area People, 2013 – “Urban Releaf” (link)
- Bay Area Monitor, 2012 – “Environmental Justice for All” (link)
- UC Davis Magazine, Volume 29, Winter 2012 – “A Tree Grows in Oakland” (link)
- Contra Costa Times, 2012 – “Gauge of Bay Area neighborhood wealth?
Look to the trees” (link) - CBS Eyewitness News, 2011 – “Lesson’s in Growing Shade”
- KTVU Channel 2, 2012 “MLK DAY: Holiday volunteer community project in Oakland has important, scientific aspect” (link)
- UC Berkeley CRS Magazine, 2009 – “Renewal Takes Root”
- NBA Green Week, 2009 – Warriors Plant a Tree Day (video)
- SustainLane, 2009 – “Kemba Shakur: Providing Much Needed ‘Releaf’”
- SustainLane, 2008 – “How Do You Spell Releaf?”
- Oakland Post – “Oakland ReLeaf On Special Mission”
- EPA, 2005 – “U.S. EPA honors 37 environmental heroes at Earth Day Ceremony” (link)
- Oakland Post – “Oakland ReLeaf On Special Mission”
- The Daily Californian, 2007 – “Co-Opers Provide ‘Releaf’ in Oakland” (link)
- NBC Bay Area Vista, 2006
- San Francisco Chronicle, 2005 – “The Jefferson Award: Kemba Shakur, tree planter” (link)
- KTVU Bay Area People, 2005
- California Shade, 2004
