Giles Garrison
- Creator:
- Garrison, Giles
- Extent:
- 2 Files
- Language:
- English
- Biographical / historical:
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Giles Garrison is the Superintendent of James River Park System, a City of Richmond park division, comprised of over 600 acres of urban trail, natural wetlands, historic works of civic architecture, and native inhabitants including osprey, bald eagle, sturgeon, and longnose gar to name a few. Previous to this role, Giles served as the City of Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities workforce development program supervisor and community engagement liaison. Before joining the City, she was the director of Groundwork RVA, a nonprofit dedicated to helping teens develop the skills to make positive changes to green spaces in their communities. A Richmonder from the beginning, Giles attended Governor's School and Williams College and received a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is thrilled to be raising her one year old within a short walk of JRPS with her husband Evan.
- Physical facet:
- Interview length 1:04:05, includes wav file and pdf transcript
Access and use
- Location of collection:
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James Branch Cabell LibraryVirginia Commonwealth UniversityP.O. Box 842003901 Park AvenueRichmond, VA 23284-2003
- Contact for questions and access:
- POC: SCA StaffEmail: libjbcsca@vcu.eduPhone: (804) 828-1108Fax: (804) 828-0151
- Parent restrictions:
- The collection is open to research.
- Parent terms of access:
- This material is protected by copyright, and the copyright is held by the interviewee. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, non-commercial use of this material is permitted. For any commercial uses, permission is required. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.