In a community whose environmental rights had long been sidelined to make room for heavy industry, Destiny Watford inspired residents of a Baltimore neighborhood to defeat plans to build the nation’s largest incinerator less than a mile away from her high school. At 17 Destiny Watford, 2016 Goldman Prize Environmental Prize winner for North America, inspired residents of a Baltimore neighborhood to defeat plans to build the nation’s largest trash- burning incinerator less than a mile away from her high school.
Now, Watford and allies in the neighborhood are working toward developing a community land trust, so that her community can have control over the decisions that affect them.