How Mayors are Tackling the Racial Wealth Gap

Thursday, April 14, 2022
12pm ET
Virtual Event

The racial wealth gap is wider for Black and Latinx families compared to White families than for any other racial identifications. Nationwide, this problem persists across a variety of assets, including housing, businesses, and retirement accounts. The Boston University Initiative on Cities’ 2021 Menino Survey of Mayors report on Closing the Racial Wealth Gap found that the majority of America’s mayors—just over two-thirds—are concerned about racial wealth gaps in their cities. Join us for an insightful conversation about how mayors should be thinking about addressing this issue across the country.

Watch live across The Rockefeller Foundation’s social media pages (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube) for an insightful conversation.

Featuring:

• Melvin Carter, 46^th Mayor of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Libby Schaaf, 50^th Mayor of Oakland, California
• Katherine Levine Einstein, Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University

Moderated by: Gregory Johnson, Managing Director, U.S. Equity and Economic Opportunity Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation