Neera Singh

TAARA Executive Committee members Barbara VanHanken and Kelsey Royce and TAARA volunteer Neera Singh attended the L.E.A.D Agency’s 27th Tar Creek Environmental Conference in Miami, OK October 7th and 8th, 2025. Local Environmental Action Demanded, or the L.E.A.D Agency is a 501(c) (3) non-profit dedicated to education about environmental justice concerns in Northeast Oklahoma and is a member of the Waterkeeper Alliance. Rebecca Jim and Earl Hatley founded the organization in 1997 to

Actions to protect the river can take many forms and sometimes you just need to have fun with it. This summer, when my 83-year-old mother and I realized how tired we were of writing letters to the editor, calling our representatives, and attending public meetings with no end in sight, we wondered what action we could take that would lift our spirits instead of weigh us down. “A street puppet parade”, I said enthusiastically. I had first experienced the power of street puppets during protest