Danielle Crumrine | Pittsburgh Visionary

Danielle is the Director of Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest.  Her vision is to create a healthy, attractive and safe urban forest by inspiring and engaging citizens to maintain, plant and protect trees.  She is also one of my closest friends and has given me several opportunities to photograph her projects which has lead to other opportunities such as shooting for The Sprout Fund. She needed some new environmental portraits taken and asked to me stop by, so I decided to share her with my blog audience.  We started our photo session out back in the tree nursery she developed at “Friends” on 5427 Penn Ave. Danielle plants and maintains trees all over the city of Pittsburgh. She teaches people to become a “Tree Tender”  As a matter of fact, Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest boasts 750 tree tenders in 63 neighborhood in the city of Pittsburgh! “It’s cute,” she says “Tree maintenance is sexy!” “Tree tending” is a truly fun and satisfying work. Danielle is also producing Arbor Aid on Friday, October 29th. This fundraiser features over fifty artists who will make art from the city’s fallen trees. If you haven’t heard about it, it’s Friends of the Urban Forest; be sure to check them out and get involved!