Reducing Inequities: Creating Change in Our Communities

In the past few months, COVID-19 and the global movement for racial justice have laid bare inequities in the U.S. and globally, and shown how these inequities undermine the very foundations of our social, political and economic systems. In this third webinar of a series on issues related to the Sustainable Development Goals, a panel of publicly-engaged scholars explored how various forms of inequality in the United States threaten community resilience and sustainable change in their areas of work and then discuss how we all can work together across sectors and disciplines to undermine systemic inequities toward positive change.

Panelists:

Zobeida E. Bonilla, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, Ph. D., Northrop Professor and Program Director of Interior Design, University of Minnesota

Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Moderators:

Karen Brown, PhD, Co-Lead UMN Sustainable Development Goals Initiative, University of Minnesota

Katey Pelican, DVM, PhD, Co-Lead UMN Sustainable Development Goals Initiative, University of Minnesota

This webinar was hosted by the University of Minnesota Sustainable Development Goal Initiative in partnership with the Office for Public Engagement.