Equity & Justice

Supporting Sustainable Development in Greater Cleveland: SDSN USA contributes to Cleveland Decarbonization Summit and convenes a meeting of Greater Cleveland Universities

On Thursday, April 13, 2023, the City of Cleveland, SDSN, and the Cleveland Foundation held the city’s first Decarbonization Summit to discuss pathways for reducing the city’s carbon emission levels.

A Poor People's Pandemic Report: Mapping the Intersection of Poverty, Race and COVID-19

A report to connect COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. to both poverty and race will be released April 4 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., by the Poor People’s Campaign and a team of world renowned economists, researchers and experts.

Exploring Equitable Approaches to Ending Hunger in America: Food, Farming, Families, and Justice

In honor of Women’s History Month and National Nutrition Month, SDSN USA hosted Zero Hunger Pathways Project Dialogue 5: Exploring Equitable Approaches to Ending Hunger in America on March 28th, 2022. Jointly organized by US SDSN’s Zero Hunger Pathways Project (ZHPP), Diversity, Equity, and Justice for Sustainable Development (DEJ) Working Group, and Howard University’s Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership, it explored the impact of historic inequities and what policies and approaches are needed to address racial and gender inequities to put the country on the pathway to zero hunger.

SDSN USA Network Members Share Their Research at Hispanic Heritage Month Research Panel

This Hispanic Heritage Month, SDSN USA and We Are All Human Foundation co-hosted a research panel webinar with presentations from SDSN USA members on important Hispanic related research being done throughout the country. The event highlighted research on a range of topics across the SDGs, including localized delivery and tracking of the SDGs in cities, efforts to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine and other public health research to underserved communities, and internalized belonging for first-generation students.

SDSN USA Committed to Promoting Diversity, Equity and Justice for Sustainable Development with Launch of Newest Working Group

On June 1st, 2021, SDSN USA launched the Working Group on Diversity, Equity, and Justice for Sustainable Development. The Working Group will be focused on how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be used to advance diversity, equity, and justice within the United States.

ArcGIS StoryMap- In the Red: The US Failure to Deliver on a Promise of Racial Equality

The SDSN USA Research team created an ArcGIS StoryMap to illustrate and provide context for the results of In the Red: the US Failure to Deliver on a Promise of Racial Equality. The StoryMap lays out how the project findings point to an unfulfilled promise of racial equality based on an unequal distribution of resources, services, and opportunities by race. The StoryMap includes high quality maps and graphs from the report, highlighting disparities in indicators like life expectancy and children attending high poverty schools, and expands on the lack of publicly available racially and ethnically disaggregated data, another key takeaway from the project.

SDSN USA Releases Newest Report on Unequal Delivery of the SDGs Across Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States

On Wednesday, May 5th, SDSN USA launched its newest report “In the Red: the US Failure to Deliver on a Promise of Racial Equality,” measuring how US states are delivering sustainability across different racial and ethnic groups. The event launch included an overview of the project, detailing the report’s findings and methodology, followed by a panel discussion, providing context for the data from experts in the field, along with remarks by Dr. Wayne Frederick and Professor Jeffrey Sachs.