Archive - Dré’s Dispatches

Inspired by The Lonely City

Some observations related to journalism + the built environment

Jun 22, 2020 •

Vol. 2, No. 1. | Welcome (back)

New platform. New Year. Same dispatches.

Jun 8, 2020 •

Regular updates about what I'm working on and what's making me tick

Welcome to Dré’s Dispatches by me, André Natta. Urban conversationalist. Bronx native. 2018 @JSKStanford Fellow. Past: @resolvephilly…

Jun 7, 2020 •

November 2019

Dre's Dispatches: Vol. 1, No. 5 | Talking About Networks as Family

It’s Been a Minute L to R: Brian Boyer, Matt Thompson, and yours truly at New Wave Cafe on November 20, 2019 It would be the biggest understatement of…

Nov 25, 2019 •

July 2019

Dre's Dispatches: Vol. 1, No. 4 | Leaning into the Love of a Community

Above: Downtown Minneapolis, Minn. on Saturday, July 13, 2019, from a bicycle on the Stone Arch Bridge. No, I didn't crash it. Yes, really. Hello…

Jul 15, 2019 •

January 2019

Dre's Dispatches, Vol 1. No. 2 | It's all about if (& how) you listen

Hello, everybody! Michele Norris speaks during a January 9, 2019 event for the Rosenbach Museum and Library held at the Free Library of Philadelphia's…

Jan 21, 2019 •

Welcome to the first edition of Dispatches

Vol. 1, No. 1: Epiphanies | a.k.a., "Exploration" or "I forgot how long it takes to do one of these things" Looking up at St. Charles Borromeo Roman…

Jan 7, 2019 •

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