Lily was born and raised in East Boston and is a recent PowerCorpsBOS graduate. As a Boston native they have experienced first hand how lack of tree equity and green spaces in our city has affected our ability to connect with each other and our earth. Lily is passionate about creating, maintaining, and conserving urban green spaces, while making sure that they are accessible to all. Their goal is to become a certified arborist, caring for trees all throughout the city. Throughout her career Lily hopes to engage more of her community in learning more about the importance and value of environmental sustainability. Some of Lily’s favorite things to do are taking a nice long hike through the forest, crocheting, sewing and spending time with loved ones. Lily is our new Tree Care Associate. 

Derived grew up in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. He finds it fascinating how interconnected the environmental-field is - working and having conversations with different people from different fields remains to him: an enticing and magnetizing experience; an experience driven by a common-goal - for a better environmentally-sustainable future; cleaner/renewable energy, better urbanize-planning; healthier bees, trees and vegetation, and cleaner water! With some of his documentary-work photographing improper tree-maintenance, the somewhat rural-looking landscapes within Boston, and bees and bees-keepers — he learned how small and tightly-knitted the green-community is, and how significant and consequential every action (good or bad) can become! He would love to see a greener-Boston in the upcoming years! And in his free-time, he loves playing the guitar! Derived is our MassCEC Summer Arts Intern.

Katherine Anne recently graduated from Boston University with a degree in Earth and Environmental Science. She is now working towards a masters - also at Boston University - in Applied Data Analytics. Ever since her freshman general chemistry labs, she has been fascinated with how intricate and useful data management and analysis can be in the sciences. She hopes to be able to put this passion to use at Speak for the Trees, Boston. In her free time, she loves to read, bake, and watch hockey. Boston University is a huge hockey school which helped spur that love. Plus, her dad’s side of the family is from Michigan so she believes it would be against some state law for her to not love hockey. She is also a huge fan of the outdoors. She loves paddle boarding, hiking, and hammocking. She’s excited for the nice weather to finally be here so being outside is a bit more enjoyable. Katherine Anne is our MassCEC Summer Project Intern.

Join Speak for the Trees for our final Spring 2024 Tree Giveaway at the Presentation School Foundation Community Center in Brighton on Saturday, June 1 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  We are excited to be in partnership with Texas Roadhouse and the Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation. Allston/Brighton homeowners and residents are encouraged to sign-up. We will be distributing 5 different species of trees: serviceberries, Eastern redbuds, Northern red oaks, Sweetbay magnolias, and katsuras.

Please note: this event is for Boston residents only until 1:00 p.m.
Non-Boston residents can pick up a free tree starting at 1:00 p.m.

We're excited to partner again with Ekua Holmes of The Roxbury Sunflower Project! They will be hosting a Seed Giveaway on Saturday, June 8 at the Grove Hall Public Library from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Contact Ekua Holmes at ekuaholmes@gmail.com for any questions and more information.

Our Teen Tree Summit is coming up very soon! The event will be hosted at the Weld Hill Research Building on Saturday June 15th from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. We will be bringing together environmental justice organizations that provide educational and employment opportunities to Greater Boston youth to celebrate the work the youth do. If you are interested in attending or would like to host an information table for your organization, please RSVP on our website or reach out to our Education Coordinator, Joshua, at Joshua@treeboston.org.

We've received some great suggestions already a name for for our new all electric truck, including Lightning Bug, The F-One-Fiftree, and Pedro Mar-tree-nez. But we're wanted to keep it open for one more round of suggestions before we move forward.

We’re looking for something fun, playful, and exciting! Do you have an idea?

If so, head over to https://treeboston.org/name-our-truck/ and provide us with a suggestion. We'll choose our favorite three and then hold a public vote. If your suggested name is chosen, we'll pick you up in our truck for a fun day of tree watering with our staff. Names referencing trees are encouraged!

Some things to know about our truck to get those creative juices flowing:

1) It is *all* electric… (which means less air pollution and less noise)

2) We'll be using it for watering trees we've planted around Boston…

3) The truck sometimes tows a trailer with it.

Jamaica Plain residents saved the big Oak Tree at 72 Hyde Park! Read their full announcement letter here.