• Jan 12, 2009

People, Place, and Opportunity: Planning for the Commonwealth’s Economic Rebound

  • 10:00 AM
  • Great Hall of Flags, Massachusetts State House

Hear a panel of experts and policymakers discuss the findings of a comprehensive statewide analysis that maps the low- and high-opportunity communities across the Commonwealth and offers strategies to grow opportunity for all.

Panelists include:

  • John Powell, Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University
  • Alice K. Wolf, State Representative, Democrat, Twenty-fifth Middlesex District
  • Jay Kaufman, State Representative, Democrat, Fifteenth Middlesex District
  • Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Associate Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Ronald Marlow, Assistant Secretary for Access and Opportunity, Executive Office for Administration and Finance
  • DeAnna Green, Senior Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  • Susan Eaton, Research Director, CHHIRJ
  • David Harris, Managing Director, CHHIRJ
  • Jason Reece, Senior Researcher, Kirwan Institute
  • Brian O’Connor (Moderator), Attorney, South Coastal Counties Legal Services
  • Francisca Fajana, Attorney, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute

Presented by:

Massachusetts Legal Services
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

RSVP required

To RSVP or for more information, please e-mail opportunitymappinglaunching@mlri.org