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10:20 AM TUESDAY Student Art Collective THURSDAY FEB 27 Presentation MARCH 1 4:00 PM 10:30 AM 9:00 AM Welcome Remarks Black Lives Matter Welcome Address UC Berkeley & Criminal Justice Mayor Mitch Landrieu Chancellor Carol Christ Reform 9:15 AM 4:10 PM Bill Keller, Sandra Smith, Health and Race Conference Opening Ronald Davis, Sonya Lisa Cooper, Mahasin john a. powell Joseph. Video from Chris Mujahid, Leana Wen, Magnus. Moderated Robert Hahn 4:40 PM in by Lester Keynote Spence. 11:00 AM Shaun Donovan Education, 1:00 PM Achievement, and 5:10 PM Keynote Performance Reading Robert Sampson Erica Frankenberg, Rucker Chinaka Hodge 2:00 PM Johnson, Linda Darling- 5:20 PM Reading: Ordinary Hammond, Jitu Brown. America from 1968 Human Beings Moderated in Baltimore by to 2018: What’s Campo Santo David Steiner. Changed, What 12:45 PM Hasn’t? 2:20 PM Housing & Keynote Ian Haney Lopez, Julian Sherrilyn Ifill Zelizer, Shantel Buggs, Neighborhoods Eric Tang Myron Orfield, Betsy Julian, 1:30 PM Camille Charles, Richard Remedies, 6:45 PM Rothstein. Moderated Big and Small Reception in Baltimore by Stefanie Chris Edley, Christina DeLuca. Livingston, Jack Boger, 3:45 PM Phil Tegeler. Moderated WEDNESDAY Employment, Jobs and in Baltimore by Robert FEB 28 Transportation Lieberman. Thea Lee, Steven Pitts, 9:00 AM 3:00 PM Welcome Elizabeth Kneebone, Thank You Guillermo Mayer. Video Johns Hopkins University and Closing from William Julius Wilson. President Ronald J. john a. powell Daniels 6:30 PM 9:15 AM Film screening: History, Origins, and Whose Streets? Legacy of Kerner With remarks and Q&A Commission with co-director Sabaah Folayan John Koskinen, Senator Fred Harris, Victor Palmieri, Jay Kriegel Conference Information

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Artwork Credits: p 6: Damon Davis, The Riot Report Series #2, Digital collage; p. 15: Damon Davis, The Riot Report Series #6, Digital collage.

#Kerner50 haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50 3 Welcome

In the mid-1960s, a series of violent police encounters with Black Americans sparked uprisings in more than one hundred American cities. I was in Detroit at that time and witness to one of the two largest of the rebellions which, during its five days,left ​ ​over 43 people dead. These outbreaks were in part a response to police brutality, harassment and disrespect. And they were in part a re- sponse to being locked out of the system, having bad schools, suffering discrimination in housing and employment—really the vestiges of slavery, in what was in essence a racial caste system that kept Black Americans from fully participating in American life. Shaken by the civil unrest across the nation in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson estab- lished the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, a bipartisan and politically main- stream group, to investigate the immediate causes of the rebellions, as well as the underlying conditions of racial segregation and discrimination that gave rise to them. Headed by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, with Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York as vice chairman, the Commission issued its findings in a landmark report on February 29, 1968, which became commonly known as simply the Kerner Report. The Kerner Report, unanimously signed by the nine-member Commission, was wide-ranging and dramatic and concluded that white society had denied opportunity to Black Americans living in poor urban neighborhoods. The report offered both dire warnings along with a bold plan of federal action. In what would become its most famous line, the Commission noted:

“Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white— separate and unequal.”

The 500-page report explicitly identified white racism as being responsible for fostering the environment which allowed the rebellions across the country to unfold and pointed to creating and maintaining the black ghetto with massive concentrations of poverty, and where basic human needs weren’t being met: “What white Americans have never fully understood — but what the Negro can never forget — is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.” The findings and recommendations of the Kerner Commission have never seemed more relevant since its release. The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, the Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative, and the Economic Policy Institute have organized this conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Report release as a historical marker that helps us judge where we are as a society now, where have we been, and what might we do in the future. One key area we will examine is why the nation did not implement more of the Commission’s recommendations. The challenge of the country today is even more stark than it was in 1968. If we don’t ad- dress many of these issues we will see a threat to the viability of our social fabric and our democ- racy. It’s hard to imagine implementing many of these things in the era of rising white nationalism, and yet this is precisely why the need remains important and the timing urgent. We see expres- sions of hope coming from communities around the country, whether from Black Lives Matter, whether from sanctuary cities, whether from the removal of Confederate monuments, or whether from our youth and Native communities leading the way to fight climate change. The Commission framed their findings largely in terms of Black and white populations. Fifty years later, we have many of the same conditions, only the country is much more diverse. The white population has declined, Latinos have become the largest minority population, there is a large Asian population, a growing Muslim population, and there are our Native and indigenous populations, who have always been here yet never received due or adequate institutional support.

4 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 #Kerner50 The lessons of the Kerner Report still ring very true today, in terms of how people are still locked out of opportunity. We see retrenchment in voting, retrenchment in the federal government in addressing issues such as school segregation, and retrenchment in terms of fair housing. All of these things tend to be racially coded, although they affect all populations. The Department of Justice has pulled back from enforcing consent decrees on police departments that violate the Constitution. The war on drugs is being reconstituted and the narrative of law and order is being re-elevated from the highest legal representative in the country. The killings of unarmed Black teenagers that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement, and the ensuing Movement for Black Lives that grew out of it, have re-awakened American conscious- ness to the pervasiveness of systemic racism, segregation, growing inequality, and state violence. Whether through the rise of white nationalism throughout the country, seen in deadly manifes- tations in places such as Charlottesville and Charleston, or the protests on college campuses and state capitols over monuments and buildings that honor figures responsible for slavery and segregation, race remains at the forefront of our American life. The Kerner Report sits at the heart of our most elemental questions of politics and policy. Only until we understand the underlying causes of our divisions and what remedies they require can we begin to move towards a fair and just society where all belong. It’s not enough to just ask who belongs, but what does it take to realize our answer? It’s not just about what we must accom- plish, but the means by which we accomplish it—how do we build a movement and a political and institutional pathway that can realize a more equitable future? Joined by many of our most prominent scholars and advocates working to advance racial justice today, we will over the next few days examine core questions we must confront about racial resentment, racial anxiety, and the backlash to racial progress. We will examine the legacy, successes and failures of the Kerner Commission, and together envision what a contemporary Kerner Report might look like in every major area of American life, including housing, education, healthcare, policing, and more. On behalf of all who have been part of organizing and producing this event in Berkeley and Baltimore, thank you for joining us at the Race & Inequality in America: the Kerner Commission at 50 conference, an event that aims to serve as a landmark retrospective as well as a roadmap for a policy agenda that can grapple with the challenges of racial inequality today and in the future.

john a. powell Director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley

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#Kerner50 haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50 5 6 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 About the Speakers IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Welcome Remarks voting rights, identity, spirituality and social justice, and the needs of citizens in a demo- Chancellor Carol Christ began her term as cratic society. john was formerly the Executive the 11th chancellor of the University of Cali- Director of the Kirwan Institute at Ohio State fornia, Berkeley on July 1, 2017. A celebrated University and the Gregory H. Williams Chair scholar of Victorian literature, Christ is also at the Moritz College of Law. He also founded well known as an advocate and directed the Institute on Race and Poverty for quality, accessible public at the University of Minnesota and was the higher education, a propo- National Legal Director of the American Civil nent of the value of a broad Liberties Union. john has taught at numerous education in the liberal arts law schools including Harvard and Columbia and sciences, and a cham- University and is the author of several books, pion of women’s issues and including his most recent work, Racing to diversity on college campus- Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and es. Christ spent more than three decades as Other to Build an Inclusive Society. a professor and administrator at UC Berkeley before serving as president of Smith Col- lege, one of the country’s most distinguished Keynote liberal arts colleges, from 2002 to 2013. She returned to Berkeley in January 2015 to direct Shaun Donovan is an American government the campus’s Center for Studies in Higher administrator and housing specialist who Education, and was appointed interim execu- served as the Director of the Office of Manage- tive vice chancellor and provost in April 2016 ment and Budget before being named chancellor in March 2017. from 2014 to 2017. Since returning to Berkeley, Christ has played Donovan is also an instrumental role in efforts to stabilize the the former United institution’s budget, confront sexual violence States Secretary of and sexual harassment on campus, and create Housing and Urban a long-term plan for housing students and Development, serv- scholars. ing from 2009 to 2014. Prior to this, he headed the New Conference Opening York City Depart- ment of Housing john a. powell is a Professor of Law, African Preservation and American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Development (HPD), where he created and Berkeley, where he holds the implemented HPD’s New Housing Marketplace Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Plan to build and preserve 165,000 affordable Chair in Equity and Inclu- homes, the largest municipal affordable hous- sion as the Director of the ing plan in the nation’s history. Secretary Don- Haas Institute for a Fair and ovan worked in the private sector on financing Inclusive Society. An interna- affordable housing. He was also a consultant tionally recognized expert in to the Millennial Housing Commission on civil rights and civil liberties, strategies for increasing the production of mul- john writes and speaks extensively on race, tifamily housing, created by the United States structural racialization, poverty, fair housing, Congress to recommend ways to expand hous- ing opportunities across the nation.

#Kerner50 haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50 7 America from 1968 to 2018: Shantel Gabrieal Buggs is an Assistant Professor in What’s Changed, What Hasn’t? the Department of Sociology Ian Haney López holds an endowed chair at Florida State University as the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the and affiliated faculty in the University of California, Berkeley, where he Program for African Amer- teaches in the areas of race and constitutional ican Studies. She earned law. One of the nation’s leading thinkers on her Ph.D. from the Univer- racism’s evolution since the sity of Texas at Austin in the Department of civil rights era, he is also a Sociology, with portfolios in the Departments Senior Fellow at Demos and of African and African Diaspora Studies and the director of the Racial Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research Politics program at the Haas interests center on how race, ethnicity, gender, Institute for a Fair and Inclu- and sexuality shape the ways that people build sive Society. Haney López and negotiate family, and pursue and main- has been a visiting profes- tain romantic intimate relationships. Through sor at Yale, New York Uni- this work, she illustrates how interpersonal versity, and Harvard, where he served as the relationships structure and reify identities and Ralph E. Shikes Visiting Fellow in Civil Rights social inequalities. In particular, her research and Civil Liberties. The author or editor of five focuses on multiracial populations and inter- books, his most recent, Dog Whistle Politics: racial couplings as people move through life How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented course processes like dating, cohabitation, Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, lays marriage, and parenthood. bare how politicians exploit racial pandering to Eric Tang is an Associate Professor in the build resentment toward government, fooling African and African Dias- voters into supporting policies that favor the pora Studies Department very wealthiest while hurting everyone else. and faculty member in the Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Center for Asian American Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History Studies at the University and Public Affairs at Princeton University and of Texas at Austin. He a CNN Political Analyst. His first book, Taxing holds a courtesy appoint- America, was awarded the 2000 Ellis Hawley ment in the Department of Prize and the 1998 D.B. Hardeman Prize. In Sociology and serves as a addition to his scholarly articles and book faculty fellow with both the Institute for Urban chapters, Zelizer is a frequent commentator Policy Research & Analysis and the Division in the international and national media on of Diversity and Community Engagement. A political history and contemporary politics. He former community organizer, Tang has pub- has published over 800 lished several articles on race and urban op-eds, including his week- social movements, including award-winning ly column on CNN.com. writing on post-Katrina New Orleans and the The History News Network book Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the named Zelizer as one of NYC Hyperghetto. He is at work on a second the top young historians book, Fire In the Streets, which revisits the in the country. He has urban rebellions of the late 1960s. Tang also received fellowships from does research on racial segregation in Austin the , the Guggenheim with attention to the gentrification-driven dis- Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. placements of the city’s longstanding African American residents.

8 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 #Kerner50 Wed. Feb 28 Senator Fred Harris is the former US Senator Welcome Remarks from Oklahoma, and the Ronald J. Daniels is the only surviving member of 14th president of Johns Hop- the nine-member Kerner kins University and a profes- Commission. From 1969 sor in the Department of Po- to 1970, he served as litical Science. Since taking Chairman of the Democrat- office in 2009, Daniels has ic National Committee. Harris left elective focused his leadership on politics for academia after 1976. He became three overarching themes – enhanced interdis- a professor of political science at the Univer- ciplinary collaboration, individual excellence, sity of New Mexico and wrote many books on and community engagement. These themes political subjects. are the backbone of the Ten by Twenty, the Victor Palmieri is an American lawyer, real university’s strategic vision through 2020. A estate financier, and corporate turnaround law and economics scholar, Daniels’ research specialist. Palmieri was the Deputy Executive focuses on the intersections of law, econom- Director of the Kerner Commission Staff. He ics, development, and public policy in areas was also Ambassador at such as corporate and securities law, social Large and US Coordinator and economic regulation, and the role of law for Refugee Affairs in the and legal institutions in promoting third-world US Department of State development. His recent writing has focused during the Jimmy Carter on advocating for young investigators in Ameri- administration. Palmieri can life-science research and on the role of the was also the chief executive research university in promoting community officer of The Palmieri Com- development. He is the author or co-author of pany, a general management seven books and dozens of scholarly articles, consulting firm that has specialized in large- as well as a fellow of the American Academy of scale reorganizations and restructurings since Arts & Sciences. 1969. He has taught courses on corporate cri- sis management at Stanford Law School and at the John F. Kennedy School of Government History, Origins, and Legacy of at Harvard University. the Kerner Commission Jay Kriegel is the Senior Adviser at Related John Koskinen was the head of the Internal Companies who previously served as assistant Revenue Service from 2013-2017, and is to the Vice Chairman of the Kerner Commis- the former Non-Executive sion, John Lindsay. Kriegel served for over a Chairman of Freddie Mac. decade as Counsellor to the Koskinen was an aide to financial communications the Vice-Chairman of the firm of Abernathy MacGregor Kerner Commission, John Group. His area of expertise Lindsay. Koskinen previ- lies in strategic communi- ously served as the deputy cations with an emphasis mayor of the District of Co- on public policy for govern- lumbia, the deputy director ments, businesses and non- for management of the Office of Management profits. He has served with the Prime Minister and Budget, and then later President Clin- of Turkey, the President of Peru, the Beijing ton’s chairman of the President’s Council on Women’s Conference, and the President of Y2K, 2000 Conversion, the Year 2000 prob- the University of Pennsylvania. Kriegel was lem. Prior to entering government service, previously a Senior Vice President of CBS Inc. Koskinen worked for 21 years for The Palmieri He co-founded and was the publisher for The Company as vice president, president, CEO, American Lawyer. and chairman.

#Kerner50 haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50 9 Black Lives Matter & joblessness, social capital and social net- works, race and ethnicity, and, more recently, Criminal Justice Reform re-entry. In a new project, generously funded Bill Keller is editor-in-chief by the Arnold Foundation, of The Marshall Project. Smith turns her attention Keller worked for The New to the front end of criminal York Times from 1984 to case processing and asks 2014 as a correspondent, how pretrial detention and editor, and op-ed columnist, diversion fundamentally and executive editor from alter offenders’ future 2003–2011. As a correspondent, he covered criminal involvement tra- the collapse of the Soviet Union, which won jectories. Smith has been him a Pulitzer Prize, and the end of white rule a deputy editor of the ASR and a consulting in South Africa. editor of the AJS. Currently she is the chair of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section Chris Magnus started his public safety of the ASA, a member of the Executive Ses- career with the Lansing Police Department. sion on Community Corrections at Harvard’s He served as the police chief in Fargo, North Kennedy School, and a member of the National Dakota, and in 2006, Magnus became police Research Advisory Board for the Misdemeanor chief for Richmond, Califor- Justice Project. nia, a position he held for 10 years. During that time Mag- Sonya Joseph is a community organizer for nus was significantly involved Faith in New York, a PICO National affiliate and in strengthening ties between LIVE FREE representative, the community and its police working in the Brooklyn force, addressing historical- and Queens area. In 2011, ly high levels of crime, and Sonya interned with NYC implementing reforms within the department. Council Member Jumaane Magnus was appointed to be the police chief Williams, eventually for Tucson, Arizona in 2016. In 2015, Magnus becoming a senior intern. testified before the President’s Task Force on Sonya completed service 21st Century Policing on best practice models with Americorps and has of community policing. worked as a tenants rights organizer to combat gentrification in Brooklyn. Her work is focused Ronald Davis is the former Director of the on centering directly-impacted people, empow- Department of Justice COPS Office and the ering and educating new leaders, and building Executive Director of President Obama’s Task community amongst all faith traditions. She is Force on 21st Century Policing. Prior to that, an alumna of Brooklyn College. She was raised Davis had a distinguished in New York by parents of Caribbean descent. career in law enforcement serving eight years as Baltimore moderator: Lester Chief of Police of East Palo Spence is an Associate Alto and 20 years with the Professor of political science Oakland Police Dept. Davis and Africana studies at was recognized for his inno- Johns Hopkins University. He vative community policing specializes in black, racial, efforts and for working with and urban politics. An award- the community to dramatically reduce crime winning scholar and teacher, he can regularly and violence in a city once named as the mur- be heard on National Public Radio and the der capital of the US. Marc Steiner Show. In 2013, Spence received the W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award Sandra Susan Smith is an associate profes- for his book, Stare in the Darkness: The Limits sor of sociology at UC Berkeley. Her research of Hip-hop and Black Politics. lies at the intersection of urban poverty and

10 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 #Kerner50 Evan Bissell, Don’t talk about it be about it (Detroit public safety budget and community and neighborhood services budget, 2017), paper collage, 2018

#Kerner50 haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50 11 Introduction to Keynote the life course, neighborhood effects, civic engagement, inequality, “ecometrics,” and the Stephen Menendian is the Assistant social structure of the city. He is the author of Director and Director of Research at the Haas three award-winning books, his most recent Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, and being Great American City: Chicago and the the former senior legal Enduring Neighborhood Effect, which won the associate at the Kirwan best book award from the American Sociolog- Institute for the Study of ical Association and the American Society of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio Criminology. State University. Stephen co-authored the amicus brief Texas Department of Housing and Neighborhoods Housing and Community Affairs v. the Inclusive Richard Rothstein is a research associate Communities Project, as well as the Institute’s of the Economic Policy Institute, a fellow at the United States Supreme Court Amicus brief in Thurgood Marshall Institute Fisher v. Texas asking the Court to uphold the of the NAACP Legal De- University of Texas’ race-conscious admissions fense Fund, and a Senior policy, the Amicus brief for Mount Holly arguing Fellow at the Haas Institute that disparate impact standard remains for a Fair and Inclusive essential to address the ongoing legacy of Society at UC Berkeley. He historical housing segregation. is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten Histo- ry of How our Government Keynote Segregated America. The book, nominated for the National Book Award, recovers a forgotten Robert J. Sampson is the Henry Ford II history of how federal, state, and local policy Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard Uni- explicitly segregated metropolitan areas na- versity, founding director of the Area tionwide, creating racially homogenous neigh- Research Initiative, and Affiliated Research borhoods in patterns that violate the Constitu- Professor at the tion and require remediation. American Bar Foun- dation. He served Camille Charles is Edmund J. and Louise W. as Chair of the Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of So- Department of Sociology, Graduate School of ciology and taught Education, and the Center for Africana Studies at the University at the University of Penn- of Chicago for a sylvania. She is author of dozen years. In the Won’t You Be My Neighbor: 1990s he was the Race, Class and Residence Scientific Director in , which of- of the Project on fers class- and race-based Human Develop- explanations for persisting ment in Chicago residential segregation. Neighborhoods, She is also nearing comple- which collected original longitudinal data tion of a sole-authored book on Black racial spanning individuals and neighborhoods and identity in the United States, tentatively titled, has produced two decades of research from The New Black: Race-Conscious or Post-Ra- scholars around the world. In 2011, he was cial? Charles earned her Ph.D. from UCLA appointed as Director of the Social Sciences where she was a project manager for the Multi- at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at City Study of Urban Inequality. Her work has Harvard University. Sampson’s research and appeared in Social Forces, Social Problems, teaching cover areas including crime, disorder, the American Journal of Education, the Annual Review of Sociology, the Chronicle of Higher

12 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 #Kerner50 Education, The Root, and Her research focuses on the way social con- other publications. text affects the outcomes of disadvantaged young people, primarily in adolescence and at Betsy Julian is Founder the transition to adulthood. and Senior Counsel of the Inclusive Communities Project, a Dallas-based non- Employment, Jobs, profit organization working for the creation and maintenance of racially and Transportation and economically inclusive communities. From Thea Lee became president of the Econom- 1994 to 1999, Ms. Julian served the Clinton ic Policy Institute (EPI) in 2018. Lee has a administration at the Department of Housing longstanding relationship and Urban Development as Deputy General with EPI, having begun her Counsel for Civil Rights, Assistant Secretary career there as an interna- for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, and tional trade economist in Secretary’s Representative for the Southwest the 1990s. Lee is com- Region. mitted to EPI’s mission of building an economy that Myron Orfield is the Director of the Institute works for everyone, not on Metropolitan Opportunity. He has written just the wealthy few. To three books and dozens of articles and book ensure that policymakers and advocates have chapters on local government law, spatial the tools they need to fight and win key battles inequality, fair housing, on behalf of working people, Lee is extending school desegregation, EPI’s reach through expanded engagement at charter schools, state and the state level and with progressive organiz- local taxation and finance, ers. and land use law. Orfield’s research has led to legis- William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda lative and judicial reforms L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard Uni- at the federal level and versity. He is one of only 20 University Profes- state level. Professor Orfield sors, the highest professional distinction for a has been a litigator in a large law firm, a civil Harvard faculty member. His current research rights lawyer, and an assistant attorney gen- focuses on a cultural analy- eral of Minnesota, representing Minnesota in sis of life in poverty based appellate courts, including the United States on ethnographic and survey Supreme Court. Recently, Orfield served on research in three cities— the National Commission on Fair Housing and Boston, Chicago, and San Equal Opportunity, as an academic advisor to Antonio. Recent studies, the Congressional Black Caucus, an advisor to which he directed in Chi- President Obama’s transition team for urban cago, examine this “new policy, to the White House Office of Urban Af- urban poverty” from a broad fairs, and as special consultant to the HUD’s perspective and consider the causative role Office for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. of macro-economic conditions, culture, social At FHEO, Professor Orfield assisted in the welfare policy, and historical circumstances. development of the Fair Housing Act’s Dis- In addition, Professor Wilson’s research ad- criminatory Effects Standard (the “disparate dresses the impact of inequality and poverty impact rule”) and the Affirmatively Furthering concentration on racial and ethnic relations, Fair Housing Rule. family structure, and joblessness, as well as the role of public policies in both alleviating Baltimore moderator: and exacerbating these problems. Stefanie DeLuca is the James Coleman Professor Steven Pitts is the Associate Chair of the of Sociology & Social Policy Center for Labor Research and Education at at Johns Hopkins University.

#Kerner50 haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50 13 UC Berkeley. Prior to that, dependent populations. In 2009, he co-led Pitts taught economics at a groundbreaking civil rights administrative Houston Community College challenge against the Bay Area Rapid Transit and, for five years, he was District (BART) for its failure to evaluate the an adjunct lecturer in the impact of the Oakland Airport Connector on African American Studies low-income and minority communities in East Program at the University Oakland. of Houston. At the Labor Center, Pitts focuses on issues of job quality and Black workers and has published reports on employment issues Thurs. March 1 in the Black community, initiated a Black Special Welcome Remarks union leadership school, and shaped projects designed to build solidarity between Black and Mitch Landrieu was sworn in as the 61st Latino immigrant workers. A major area of his Mayor of New Orleans on May 3, 2010 with a work involves providing technical assistance clear mandate to usher to efforts in developing Black worker centers in a new era of peace around the country. and prosperity in New Orleans. In 2014, Elizabeth Kneebone is a nonresident senior Mayor Landrieu was fellow at the Metropolitan Pol- overwhelmingly reelect- icy Program at Brookings ed to a second term. and co-author of Confront- He is the first mayor in ing Suburban Poverty in the city to be elected America. Her work primarily by majorities of both focuses on urban and sub- white and African-Amer- urban poverty, metropolitan ican voters, a feat he demographics, and tax accomplished twice. policies that support low-in- Under Landrieu, New come workers and communities. In Confronting Orleans has become America’s best comeback Suburban Poverty In America she and co-au- story and one of the fastest growing major thor Alan Berube address the changing geogra- cities in America. Since 2010, New Orleans phy of metropolitan poverty and offer prag- has been ranked as the #1 metropolitan area matic solutions for reforming and modernizing for overall economic recovery by the Brookings the nation’s policy and practice framework for Institute and as America’s Best City for School alleviating poverty and increasing access to Reform by the Fordham Institute. New Orleans opportunity. also received the World Tourism Award for Guillermo Mayer became President and CEO outstanding accomplishments in the travel and of Public Advocates Inc. in November 2013 hospitality industry. after serving for more than 9 years on the organiza- tion’s legal team. There, he Health and Race specialized in litigation and Lisa Cooper is a advocacy to improve public Bloomberg Distinguished transportation services in Professor at Johns Hopkins low-income communities University School of Medi- and communities of color. cine and Bloomberg School An expert in transporta- of Public Health. Currently, tion equity matters, Guillermo played leading Dr. Cooper directs the roles in state and national policy campaigns Johns Hopkins Center for to enforce civil rights in transportation deci- Health Equity, where she and her transdis- sion-making, improve equitable outcomes in ciplinary team work with stakeholders from regional transportation planning, and secure healthcare and the community to implement greater funding for local bus service for transit

14 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 #Kerner50 #Kerner50 haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50 15 rigorous clinical trials, identifying interventions hospitals in treating violence as a contagious that alleviate racial and income disparities in disease. A board-certified emergency physi- social determinants and health outcomes. The cian, Dr. Wen was a Rhodes Scholar, Clinical Center also provides training to a new gen- Fellow at Harvard, consultant with the World eration of health equality scholars and advo- Health Organization, and professor at George cates for social change with policymakers. Dr. Washington University. She has published over Cooper was born in Liberia, West Africa, where 100 scientific articles and is the author of the she witnessed the effects of social deprivation book When Doctors Don’t Listen. In 2016, Dr. on the health of many of her fellow citizens Wen was honored to be the recipient of the and developed the passion for her career in American Public Health Association’s highest medicine and public health. award for local public health work.

Mahasin Mujahid PhD, MS, FAHA is an Robert A. Hahn has served as an epidemiol- Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Direc- ogist at the CDC since 1986. He received his tor of the MPH Program in Epidemiology and doctorate in anthropology at Biostatistics, Co-Director of the Master of City Harvard University (1976) Planning/Master of Public and his MPH in epidemiol- Health MPH Program, and ogy from the University of Chancellor’s Professor at Washington (1986). He is the UC Berkeley School of the author of Sickness and Public Health. Her primary Healing: An Anthropological area of research examines Perspective and editor of the role of neighborhood Anthropology and Public environment in cardiovas- Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and cular health. Dr. Mujahid’s Society. He is currently coordinating scientist research, funded by the National Institutes of of systematic reviews interventions to promote Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foun- health equity with the Guide to Community dation among others, has been published in Preventive Services. leading public health and medical journals nationally. Dr. Mujahid earned her B.S. in Mathematics from Xavier University and her Education, Achievement, M.S. in Biostatistics and Ph.D in Epidemiology and Performance from the University of Michigan. Dr. Mujahid has received several teaching honors from UC Erica Frankenberg is an Berkeley, including the Distinguished Faculty associate professor of ed- Mentor Award, the Committee on Teaching Ex- ucation and demography in cellence Award, and the Leon Henkin Citation the College of Education at for Distinguished Service. the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. Her research inter- Leana Wen is the Commissioner of Health in ests focus on racial deseg- Baltimore, where she oversees the nation’s regation and inequality in K-12 schools, and oldest health department. Facing an unprec- the connections between school segregation edented number of people and other metropolitan policies. At Penn State, dying from overdose, Dr. Frankenberg teaches classes on education Dr. Wen issued a blanket policy and politics. In 2014, she coordinated prescription for the opioid the Civil Rights and Education conference at antidote, naloxone, which Penn State. With Liliana Garces, Dr. Franken- has saved 1,500 lives in berg directs a civil rights and education center two years. Other transforma- at Penn State. tive projects include a col- lective impact strategy that has reduced infant Rucker Johnson is an Associate Professor mortality by 40 percent, an initiative to get in the Goldman School of Public Policy at glasses to every child who needs them, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has a program to engage returning citizens and focused on such topics as low-wage labor

16 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 #Kerner50 markets, spatial mismatch, voice from the decision-making process. the societal consequences of incarceration, the socio- Baltimore moderator. David economic determinants of Steiner is Director of the health disparities over the Johns Hopkins Institute life course, and the effects for Education Policy and of growing up poor and poor Professor of Education at infant health on childhood cognition, child Johns Hopkins University. health, educational attainment, and later-life He currently serves as a health and socioeconomic success. member of the State Board of Education and on the Maryland Commission for Innovation Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. and Excellence in Education. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Keynote Education and served as the faculty sponsor of the Stanford Teacher Ed- Sherrilyn Ifill is the seventh President and ucation Program, which she Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense helped to redesign. She has and Educational Fund, Inc. Ms. Ifill is a long- consulted widely with feder- time member of the LDF family. After graduat- al, state and local officials ing law school, Ifill served first as a fellow at and educators on strategies the American Civil Liberties Union and then for improving education pol- for five years as an icies and practices. Among assistant counsel her more than 500 publications are a number in LDF’s New York of award-winning books, including The Right to office, where she Learn, Teaching as the Learning Profession, litigated voting Preparing Teachers for a Changing World and rights cases. The Flat World and Education. Among her suc- cessful litigation Jitu Brown is the National Director of Journey was the landmark for Justice Alliance. Brown started volunteer- Voting Rights Act ing with the Kenwood Oakland Community case Houston Organization (KOCO) in 1991, became a board Lawyers’ Associ- member in 1993, and served as the Board ation vs. Attorney president for a number of General of Texas, in which the Supreme Court years. He joined the staff as held that judicial elections are covered by the education organizer in 2006. provisions of section 2 of the Voting Rights Jitu has organized in the Act. A critically acclaimed author, her book On Kenwood Oakland neigh- the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy borhood for over 17 years of Lynching in the 21st Century reflects her bringing community voices to lifelong engagement in and analysis of issues the table on school issues. of race and American public life. Ifill’s schol- Jitu helped develop the Mid-South Education arly writing has focused on the importance of Association, a grassroots advocacy group diversity on the bench, and she is currently comprised of administrators, parents, teach- writing a book about race and Supreme Court ers, young people and local school council confirmation hearings. Ifill is the immediate (LSC) members to meet the needs of schools past Chair of the Board of US Programs at in the area. They were the first group to certify the Open Society Institute, one of the largest parents as LSC facilitators, which has become philanthropic supporters of civil rights and a model being replicated across the city of social justice organizations in the country. Chicago. KOCO has served as a resource for organizations nationwide, dealing with school closings and the elimination of community

#Kerner50 haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50 17 Remedies, Big and Small mobility work, while also helping lead the work of Christopher Edley, Jr. was Dean of the UC the National Coalition on Berkeley School of Law from 2004 to 2013, School Diversity, which after 23 years as a Harvard Law professor. His PRRAC cofounded in academic work is in administrative law, civil 2009. Prior, Mr. Tegeler rights, education policy, and domestic public was an attorney with the policy generally. Professor Edley has moved Connecticut ACLU, where between academia and he also served as Legal Director from 1997 public service, each enrich- to 2003. At the ACLU, Mr. Tegeler litigated ing the other and together cases in federal and state courts involving fair giving him broad familiarity housing, school desegregation, land use law, with many areas of public voting rights, first amendment law, gay rights, policy. He served in White prison conditions, criminal justice, and other House policy and budget institutional reform litigation. positions under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. More recently, Jack Boger joined the staff of the NAACP Edley co-chaired the congressionally chartered Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) in National Commission on Education Equity and 1978, where he litigated capital punishment Excellence from 2011 to 2013. The Commis- cases for a decade and sion’s charge was to revisit the 1983 report, A became director of the Nation at Risk, and recommend future direc- fund’s Capital Punishment tions for reform; he chairs the follow-on effort, Project. In 1987, he be- For Each & Every Child. He continues as a came director of a poverty Berkeley Professor. and justice program at LDF established to enlarge the Christina Livingston is the Executive legal rights of the minori- Director of ACCE and the ACCE Institute. She ty poor. Boger joined the began her organizing career in 2004 as a field UNC School of Law faculty in 1990, and from organizer for Los Angeles ACORN where she 1995–1999 served as associate dean for worked in South LA developing leaders and academic affairs. In 2002, he became deputy organizing campaigns to director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights and, improve community con- in 2006, UNC Law’s 13th dean. Boger was ditions. She later became chair from 1989-2016 of the Poverty and Race the Field Director for Cali- Research Action Council (PRRAC), a Washing- fornia ACORN, directly man- ton, DC-based federation of civil rights and aging operations in four legal services groups that encourages national cities. In 2010, Christina, coordination of social scientific research and along with former ACORN legal advocacy on behalf of the poor. staff and leaders, started ACCE and later the ACCE Institute where she Baltimore moderator: worked for two years as Deputy Director before Robert Lieberman is the becoming Executive Director. Her work during Krieger-Eisenhower Profes- those years focused heavily on coordinating sor of Political Science at and advancing the revenue and banking ac- Johns Hopkins University. A countability campaigns. distinguished political sci- entist and former academic Philip Tegeler has worked as a civil rights administrator at Columbia lawyer for over 30 years, specializing in fair University, Lieberman served housing and educational equity policy and as provost and senior vice president for aca- litigation. In 2004, Tegeler was appointed demic affairs at Johns Hopkins from 2013–16. Executive Director of the Poverty and Race He stepped down to pursue his research and Research Action Council (PRRAC) where scholarship on issues of race and inequality. he supports housing policy and housing

18 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 #Kerner50 Arts and Culture THE KERNER REPORT and the mirror it holds up to our contemporary moment is rich framing for artists. Alongside the Kerner Commission’s extensive efforts to describe the summer of 1967, and more broadly the social landscape of race and reality in America, there remains ample room to expand our understanding of what the continuity of life and resistance means in the last 50 years in US cities. The creative work gathered for this conference seeks to fold layers of texture and provocation into our discussions on policy, systems, and social change. For the Race & In- equality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 conference, we commissioned or convened the following work, most of it original or new: • A Kerner@50 Student Art Collaborative used readings and discussions from the Kerner Report to explore the theme of “Why are you afraid?” The student artists used that question as an anchoring point to explore multiple themes: the tangled relationship between domestic policing and foreign policy, and how expressions of the mundane reveal the depth of intersec- tional oppression as well as the humanity of everyday resistance.

• Artist Damon Davis’s new visual art series, The Riot Report, displayed in the lobby and a few in this program, is a contemporary take on historical materials from the period that disrupt stagnant consumption of the documentation of such histories, splicing in new stories for the people in the photos, and asking us to look again.

• Poet, playwright, and cultural scribe Chinaka Hodge’s commissioned poem interrogates the Kerner Report with an insistently human lens, building on a body of work throughout her ca- reer that addresses the layered and rippling impact of police violence and structural racism.

• Theater collective Campo Santo’s reading and performance piece, Ordinary Human Beings, brings three texts into a transhistorical conversation; W.E.B Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction, the Kerner Report, and the policy platform from the Movement for Black Lives. Like Evan Bissell’s drawings, the Campo Santo piece (which Bissell developed with director Sean San Jose) combines text from the Kerner Report with contemporary artifacts such as budget and grocery coupons from Detroit. Both of these works use our contemporary moment as a ques- tion to the past: If this is where we are again, what is it about our efforts to make change that need to change?

In addition to the above new works, artist Sadie Barnette granted us the use of one of her pieces from Dear 1968 which traces elements that flew under the Kerner Commission’s radar and accelerated out of that moment—COINTELPRO and the government efforts to destroy the revolu- tionary activities of that time, including the character and livelihood of her father who is featured in the piece. And images from All Hands on Deck, a project created by Damon Davis during the 2014 Fer- guson uprising, crowns the main conference room, reminding us of the many hands that uplift social movements and hold them together. While referencing the constant refrain of that summer, “Hands up, don’t shoot”, the hands are from the viewpoint of the person holding them up, thereby joining us into this collective effort. We are also thrilled to be able to bring media maker Sabaah Folayan to Berkeley for a special screening of the documentary she co-directed with Davis, Whose Streets?, a first-hand acount about the Ferguson movement-makers who resoundingly claimed through their grassroots activism that Michael Brown’s life mattered, their lives matter, and that Black life matters. It is our sincere hope that these works not only re-energize and cause us to feel these issues deeply, but add to the vision of long-term change that is spacious enough for people to thrive.

- Rachelle Galloway-Popotas, Evan Bissell, and Nikko Duren Arts & Culture Committee

#Kerner50 haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50 19 Britney (Brit) Frazier About the Artists has performed with Shotgun Players in Bul- READING rusher, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre’s production of Chinaka Hodge is a poet, educator play- Fabulation, The Voyage wright and screenwriter. Originally from Oak- with Shotgun Players, In land, California, she graduated from NYU’s a Daughter’s Eyes at Brava Gallatin School of Individualized Study 2006, Theater, Rapunzel as Rafi at the Marin Theater and was honored to be the Company, Superheroes as Magnolia with Cam- student speaker at the 17th po Santo and Florrie in Waiting for Lefty with Commencement. Chinaka the Ubuntu Theater Project. Brit received her was a 2012 Artist in Res- BA degree in Theatrical Performance from San idence at The Headlands Francisco State. Center for the Arts in Marin, California. In 2013, Hodge Delina Patrice Brooks is a multi-disciplinary was a Sundance Feature artist, and Founder & Director of DelinaDream Film lab Fellow. Chinaka has also served in Productions. Brooks is a three-time Isado- many roles at Youth Speaks/The Living Word ra Duncan “Izzie” Award Project, the nation’s leading literary arts non­ nominee, winning in 2017 profit where she worked directly with Youth for “An Open Love Letter Speaks’ core population as a teaching art- to Black Fathers”. She has ist and poet mentor. Her poems, editorials, performed at National Per- interviews and prose have been featured in formance Network’s “Live Newsweek, Magazine, Believer & On Stage,” Yerba Buena Magazine, PBS, NPR, CNN, C­Span, and HBO’s Center for the Arts, Youth Def Poetry. Speaks, AfroSolo Festival, Dance Brigade’s D.I.R.T Festival, the 16th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Festival, SF Juneteenth READING: Festival, The Black Choreographers Festival, ORDINARY HUMAN BEINGS La Pena Cultural Center, among others. She joined Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Living Word Campo Santo is a multicultural new perfor- Project in 2004 performing with Zap Mama, mances group that gives voice to untold sto- Nas & Damian Marley, ASE Dance Theatre Col- ries through socially relevant world premieres lective, and more. She is a resident member of plays created in long-term processes. of Campo Santo. Sean San José is a Director, Writer, Per- Dezi Solèy is a prizmatic artist—actor, mod- former and Co-Founder of Campo Santo. He el, dancer, choreographer, writer, designer— is the Artistic Director of the Emerging Artists dedicated to co-creating embodiments of the Program at Youth Speaks, and a Lecture in the Divine through explorations in theater, film & Theater, Dance, and Per- performance art. She has trained and per- formance Studies Depart- formed with folkloric Haitian & South African ment at UC Berkeley. San dance theatre companies José’s body of work spans at the 2013/15 SF Ethnic 50 premiere theatre pro- Dance Festivals. Her orig- ductions for Campo Santo inal choreographed works including the first plays by consist of four multimedia Sharif Abu-Hamdeh, Jimmy pieces in the 2014/16 Santiago Baca, Jorge Igna- National Queer Arts cio Cortinas, Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, China- Festival. In 2016 Solèy ka Hodge, Denis Johnson, Greg Sarris, Luis debuted FMMTPN, a short Saguar, and Vendela Vida. film & installation at SOMArts in conjunction with The Black Woman is God and played in

20 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 #Kerner50 the west coast premiere of Keith Josef Adkins’ killed. The film has been supported by the Safe House at the Aurora Theater. Solèy’s Sundance Documentary Film Program, Tribeca most recent work includes starring in Star Film Institute, Ford Foundation, MacArthur and Finch’s BONDAGE with AlterTheater, perform- more. Sabaah is especially interested in creat- ing in Campo Santo’s Ethos De Masquerade ing episodic content for digital and television at ACT’s The Strand as well as in THEATRE- broadcast. F1RST’s production of The Farm and The Participants. STUDENT ART COLLABORATIVE Ashley Smiley is a core member of Cam- po Santo and an emerging director. Ashley Nikko Duren is a multidisciplinary artist who currently holds the position of Youth Theatre engages in a reactionary Programs/Rising Voices Director where she is process of transtemporal responsible for the budget, creation. Nikko’s work offers productions, and curric- both mediated and unmedi- ulum for the CWW Youth ated responses to the lived Theatre Elective at The experiences of their black Academy SF @ McAteer queer and trans* ancestry. High School, the CWW After Historically, Nikko’s work School Theatre Elective, has manifested as choreographed dance, and the Rising Voices oratorical presentations, video art, film produc- Theatre and Performance tion, and music making. Program. Ashley is also a part of the Las Hocionas Lab, a residency program that aims Dulce María López González’s art is based to support, encourage and uplift the voices of on her experience as a low-income Mexican womxn/queer/trans artists of color that want immigrant woman living in to use their work to speak out against injus- the United States. Through tices locally and worldwide which will have a her artworks, she intends to culminating performance in March at Studio shake the audience out of Grand in Oakland. their comfort zone, in order to provoke, question, and analyze societal structures, FILM SCREENING: racism, sexism, immigration, culture, and WHOSE STREETS? politics.

Sabaah Folayan is an award-winning story- Ashley Holloway is a visual artist/storytell- teller who uses written and visual media to er, currently a senior at San Francisco State bring a fresh perspective University with a concentration in Sociology to the urgent questions and Africana Studies. of our time. A Los An- Her work is influenced by geles native, she has interpreting the inter- thrived in vastly different section between Black environments from South consciousness and Central LA to the Upper uplifting the Black com- West Side. Outside-the- munity. Ashley’s work at box thinking and passion the Museum of African for social good drew her to Diaspora, curating art showcases at the Afri- community organizing. She honed strategic can American Art & Culture Complex, and role planning skills in the nonprofit and grassroots as a teacher’s assistant alongside Black Lives sectors before becoming a filmmaker. Sa- Matter activist Alicia Garza, are all in the hope baah made her directorial debut at the 2017 of being a vessel to uplift the consciousness Sundance Film Festival with Whose Streets?, of the Black community. which chronicles the experiences of activists living in Ferguson when Michael Brown, Jr. was

#Kerner50 haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50 21 el lee is a visual and per- Sadie Barnette is from Oakland, California. forming artist interested Her work has been exhibited throughout the in dynamics of loss/care, world at venues including The Studio Museum longing/memory, dream/ in Harlem, where she was Artist in Residence, suffering in order to process the Oakland Museum of California, and Good- through gender and geo- man Gallery in Johannes- graphic dysphorias. burg, South Africa. She is the recipient of Art Matters Lulu Matute is a senior in the American and Artadia awards and has Studies department writing her honor’s thesis been featured in The New on law, media and social York Times, The Los Angeles memory in post-military Times, Artforum, and Vogue. coup d’état Honduras. Her Her work is in the permanent McNair Scholars research collections of The Pérez Art Museum in Miami, is focused on the life and the California African American Museum, and death of environmental The Studio Museum in Harlem. She lives and activist Berta Cáceres. Lulu works in Oakland and is represented by Charlie designs and produces mul- James Gallery in Los Angeles. timedia projects on progressive politics in the US, the Central American diaspora, and urban Evan Bissell facilitates Latinx culture. She launched the production participatory art and re- of Democracy in Color Podcast in 2016 which search projects that support explores issues of race and politics in the US. equitable systems and liber- atory processes. Evan has Kiana Nicole Parker is a senior majoring exhibited at CUNY Graduate in Media Studies at UC Berkeley. Kiana often Center, on Alcatraz Island, seeks communities and and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and programs where she is able facilitated projects in schools, universities, and to intertwine her art and community settings throughout the country. academia. Her preferred He teaches about art and social change at UC medium of art practice is Berkeley and is the Arts and Culture Strategist performance, specifically at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive with vocal music. Society. He holds a master’s in Public Health and City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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Damon Davis is a multimedia American artist, musician, and filmmaker based in St. Louis, Missouri. His 2014 public art installa- tion “All Hands on Deck” has been collected in the Nation- al Museum of African Ameri- can History and Culture. He is also a founder of Far- Fetched, a St. Louis-based artist collective, and co-di- rector of Whose Streets?, a documentary on the Ferguson unrest following police officer Darren Wilson’s fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 and is being screened at the Kerner@50 conference in Berkeley as part of its programming.

22 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 #Kerner50 Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 is organized by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley, the 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University and the Economic Policy Institute, and is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Spencer Foundation.

Conference Arts/Culture Chairs Committee john a. powell Evan Bissell, Nikko Haas Institute for a Fair Duren, Rachelle and Inclusive Society The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at Galloway-Popotas UC Berkeley brings together researchers, community Stephen Menendian Media & stakeholders, policymakers, and communicators to Haas Institute for a Fair identify and challenge the barriers to an inclusive, just, and Inclusive Society Communications and sustainable society in order to create transformative Marc Abizeid, change. Richard Rothstein Rachelle Galloway- Economic Policy Institute Popotas, Sara haasinstitute.berkeley.edu and Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Grossman, Liz Rose Emcee Organizing Gerald Lenoir Committee Haas Institute: Special Thanks Puanani Forbes, The Haas Institute Rachelle Galloway- would like to thank: The Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative (21CC) is Popotas, Alycia committed to understanding and solving economic, health, Tulloch Our staff, students, community partners, education, safety, and housing inequities that many cities are struggling to address. The goal of 21CC is to help Johns Hopkins: and faculty for your cities transform neighborhoods and communities so that Rob Lieberman, Mac hard work in bringing all urban residents can thrive in the 21st century. McComas, Ben Seigel this event to life; ETS, the videography team 21cc.jhu.edu Advisory Committee in Berkeley; Gabby (McGrath) O’Halloran Jack Boger, Chris at the ASUC Student Edley, Jr., Sherrilyn Union; photographer Ifill, represented by Serginho Roosblad; James Cadogan, Marc Abizeid for Rucker Johnson, the video montage; The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a nonprofit think Elizabeth Julian, and, Roqua Montez, tank that researches the impact of economic trends and Bill Keller, Jay Gretchen Kell, Anne policies on working people in the US. EPI’s research helps Kriegel, Taeku Lee, Brice, Carol Ness, policymakers, opinion leaders, advocates, journalists, and Stephen Menendian, and the team at the public understand the bread-and-butter issues affecting Myron Orfield, Jack Berkeley Public ordinary Americans. EPI provides a roadmap to becoming Rosenthal (1935- an America where hard-working low-wage employees earn Affairs. 2017), Richard enough to make a living, the middle class is strong and Rothstein, William The 21st Century healthy, and workers who help our economy grow share in its prosperity. Julius Wilson Cities Initiative would like to thank: epi.org Open Range Video in Baltimore and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50