The Honorable Ras J. Baraka, Mayor of Newark, spoke on the wealth gap. The event was moderated by Washington Post reporter Tracy Jan and included a panel discussion with Elsie Harper-Anderson, Associate Professor, Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University; Paul Ong, Research Professor and Director, Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs; and Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation.
Teresa Córdova, Director of the Great Cities Institute and Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, started the event with a land acknowledgement. Stephen Small, Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, introduced the event.
This event was part of a series presented by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, as well as the Great Cities Institute at the University of Chicago at Illinois.
The series was co-sponsored by: Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, African American Mayors Association, National Urban League, California Association of Black Lawyers, Charles Houston Bar Association, Litigation Division of the California Bar Association, Equal Justice Society, City Club of Chicago, Executives’ Club of Chicago, the Chicago Community Trust, Metropolitan Family Services of Chicago, Communities Partnering 4 Peace, Institute for Nonviolence Chicago, Strides for Peace, and WBGO-FM (Newark).
For more about the series, visit https://issi.berkeley.edu/BlackMayors
