Using Data for Justice: How Changemakers Can Center Racial Equity in COVID-19 Recovery

Join Sarah Rosen Wartell, president of the Urban Institute, for a special installment in Urban’s conversation series, Evidence to Action, to launch Urban’s Racial Equity Analytics Lab (REAL).

During this virtual event, Michael McAfee, president and CEO of PolicyLink, and Alonzo Plough, chief science officer and vice president of research-evaluation-learning at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will join Wartell to discuss the power of disaggregated data to help changemakers lead an equitable response to the pandemic and economic crisis. Next, Shena Ashley, vice president for the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and cofounder of REAL, Kelly Jin, New York City’s chief analytics officer and director of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, and Candace Moore, Chicago’s chief equity officer, will join Wartell to discuss how leaders are using disaggregated data right now to target COVID-19 response to communities needing the most aid and how new tools at the intersection of data science and public policy can help create an equitable recovery.