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Community Conversations: A New Path to Closing the Racial Wealth Gap (w/ Dr. Karilyn Crockett)
Tue, Apr 18
|Virtual Event via Zoom
Karilyn Crockett served with the Mayor's Office of Economic Development as the Director of Economic Policy & Research and the Director of Small Business Development for the City of Boston. She was also the city's first Chief of Equity, and we will discuss closing the racial wealth gap with her.
Time & Location
Apr 18, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Virtual Event via Zoom
About the Event
Community Conversations: A New Path to Closing the Racial Wealth Gap (w/ Dr. Karilyn Crockett)
Zoom event link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81545572954
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Karilyn Crockett about new ways to look at and address the racial wealth gap in Boston and beyond. We look forward to this discussion and hope you will join us to be a part of it.
A Brief Bio of Karilyn:
Dr. Karilyn Crockett’s research focuses on large-scale land use changes in 20th century American cities and examines the social and geographic implications of structural poverty and racial formations. Karilyn co-founded Multicultural Youth Tour of What's Now (MYTOWN), an award winning, Boston-based, educational non-profit organization. During 15 years of operation, MYTOWN created jobs for more than 300 low and moderate-income teens, who led public walking tours for more than 14,000 people. In a White House ceremony, the National Endowment for the Humanities cited MYTOWN…