A conference featuring noted national experts will explore ways to advance equity and inclusion in cities facing bankruptcy and financial crisis n Monday, April 7, and Tuesday, April 8, at Wayne State University Law School.
The event, “Detroit Bankruptcy and Beyond: Organizing for Change in Distressed Cities,” is free and open to the public. It will be held in the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium at the Detroit law school
“This conference brings together organizers, policymakers, community members, researchers and the public from Detroit and across the nation to advance equity and inclusion in cities facing bankruptcy and financial crisis by analyzing shared challenges and root causes and crafting strategies and solutions,” said Professor Peter Hammer, director of Wayne Law’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights.
The Keith Center is sponsoring the event with the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California-Berkeley and MOSES (Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength), a congregation-based Detroit social justice organization.
Keynote speakers include:
• Rip Rapson, president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, a $3 billion private foundation based in metropolitan Detroit. Rapson, an attorney and expert in urban policy, has led the foundation since 2006.
• Thomas Sugrue, the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology and director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is a specialist in 20th-century American politics, urban history, civil rights and race.
• Carol O’Cleireacain, who has a doctorate in economics and is an economic and management consultant and senior fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She served as New York City’s budget director and finance commissioner under Mayor David Dinkins.
• Ron Sims, former deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. From 2009 to 2011, he managed the day-to-day operations of the agency. Prior to his appointment at HUD, Sims served for 12 years as the elected executive of King County, Wash.
For more information about the conference, call the Keith Center at (313) 577-3620.
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