Great Falls Forum: “Falling in Love with Lewiston”
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The 2021-2022 season of the Great Falls Forum continues on Thursday, April 21st, featuring Amy Smith, Founder and Executive Director of Healthy Homeworks, with a talk entitled “Falling in Love with Lewiston.” This free, public program will take place from 12 noon to 1 PM virtually via Zoom and streamed to the Lewiston Public Library Facebook page.
Ten years ago, Amy Smith was living in her Yarmouth, Maine home of 20 years, watching her youngest of three children get ready to graduate from high school. Now she lives in the heart of Lewiston’s Tree Streets, managing 22 affordable rental units, serving on the Board of Directors of Avesta Housing and Healthy Neighborhoods, and managing 2 non-profits: Healthy Homeworks and Lewiston Rowing. What gives? In her Great Falls Forum talk, Amy will share her story about falling in love with housing in general, and Lewiston in particular.
Amy graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984 and worked in the software industry for 32 years defining, designing, and delivering high quality technical solutions to critical business problems. She raised three children in Yarmouth, ME, where she managed various booster groups and created a high school rowing program. In 2016, she transferred her management and design skills to creating durable, quality, affordable housing, and focused her philanthropic work on creating a parallel organization where she could invest time in the community. In 2021 she brought her love of rowing to Androscoggin by way of Riverfest 1.0.
The Great Falls Forum speaker series is co-sponsored by Bates College, Lewiston Public Library, and the Sun Journal.
Admission is free to all Forum events. For more information, please contact the Lewiston Public Library at 513-3135 or LPLReference@lewistonmaine.gov.
