Grand Challenges: Urban Equity Collaborative
Grant Type: Impact Award
Topics: Future Cities and Social Justice
Colleges Represented: ARCH, ARHU, SPHL
UMD’s Urban Equity Collaborative Provides Training, Workshops, and Policy Action for Strengthening Community-based Institutions
September 30, 2024
Whose 'Right to Suburbia'?
September 24, 2024
SPH’s Devon Payne-Sturges Earns Top Environmental Health Honor
September 3, 2024
New Tools for Keeping Immigrant-Owned Shops in Place
July 26, 2024
Urban Equity Collaborative Launches First Cohort of the Community Fellows Program
February 23, 2024
UMD Professors Launch Collective to Assist Communities, Activists with Urban Equity Issues (The Diamondback)
October 13, 2023
Grand Challenges: Newly-Launched Urban Equity Collaborative Hosts Open House
October 5, 2023
October 29, 2024
Preventing Climate Displacement With Community Resilience Hubs with Dennis Chestnut and Justin Lini from the Ward 7 Resilience Hub Community Coalition, 12:00-2:00 pm
This session will explain what Resilience Hubs are, where DC’s program came from, and how they can prevent climate displacement by investing in community-serving organizations to create platforms for resilience and recovery.
Location: Preinkert Hall, Suite 1221, 7840 Preinkert Drive College Park, MD 20740, and virtually on Zoom. Light refreshments will be provided for all in-person participants! Register Here
November 13, 2024
Urban Equity Collaborative Workshop: Internal Climate Migration in the United States
Kelly Leilani Main, Executive Director and Founder of Buy-In Community Planning, a national 501c3 organization providing equitable and accessible voluntary relocation services for communities on the front lines of irreversible climate impacts. This workshop will take place virtually from 12:00-2:00pm. Register here.
Summary:
Cities have never been more important. Currently, over 80% of people in the U.S. live and work in cities. By 2050, almost 90% of the U.S. population, and close to 70% of the world’s population will reside in cities. The Urban Equity Collaborative seeks to strengthen community-based institutions and the work of community activists around issues of urban inequality. It aims to incubate and disseminate durable research and policy strategies that promote economic, racial, and gender justice and shifts power towards communities on the frontlines of struggle.
To accelerate creative solutions to the trenchant problems facing urban communities, the Urban Equity Collaborative employs an intersectional, multidisciplinary, and collaborative approach to action research and collective inquiry that upholds equitable community partnerships. A unique feature of this initiative is its community fellows program where community leaders, including community-based organizational representatives, organizers, and activists, are invited to become researchers-in-residence.
The collaborative’s work will focus on issues of dispossession and displacement, and specifically issues of affordable housing access, immigrant rights, and small business displacement. Through capacity and knowledge exchange with communities, the Urban Equity Collaborative will leverage the collective expertise of university researchers in the service of community-led work.
Team Members:
 PI: Willow Lung-Amam (ARCH), Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning |
 Co-PI: Nancy Raquel Mirabal (ARHU), Associate Professor, American Studies |
 Co-PI: Devon Payne-Sturges (SPHL), Associate Professor, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health |