Carthan was an environmental and community activist that used her passion to create everlasting good in communities.
Carthan led what would become a decades-long campaign to protect, preserve and plant trees in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Carthan founded numerous environmental and community organizations that brought together issues of neighborhood beautification, urban ecology and community empowerment.
Nature has always been an essential part of human life. However, it is not always treated as such. Millions of trees are cut down in order to build the cities we live in today.
Beautiful greenery uplifts us in so many ways we don't understand. Hattie Carthan made it her mission to use trees as a way to uplift community social environments.
