The Equity Center

A UVA Democracy Initiative center for the redress of inequity through community-engaged scholarship

Leadership

Ben Allen

Executive Director

eba5b@virginia.edu

Damian Banks, Founder, Banks Collage

Damien "Snake" Banks

Local Steering Committee Member, Youth Education Pipeline

Shantall Bingham, Program Director, Charlottesville Food Justice Network at City Schoolyard Garden

Shantell Bingham

Local Steering Committee Member, Institutional Inequality

Zyahna Bryant

Zyahna Bryant

Research Associate, Youth Education Pipeline

Michele Claibourn

Michele Claibourn

Director of Equitable Analysis

mpc8t@virginia.edu

Elgin Cleckley

Faculty Director, Design Justice

Nancy L. Deutsch

Faculty Director, Youth Education Pipeline

Daniel Fairley

Daniel Fairley

Local Steering Committee, Youth Education Pipeline

Don Gathers

Don Gathers

Local Steering Committee Member, Ground Theory of Structural Racism

Bonnie Gordon

Bonnie Gordon

Faculty Director, Community Engaged Scholarship

Charlene Green

Charlene Green

Local Steering Committee Member, Democratization of Data

Joy Johnson

Joy Johnson

Local Steering Committee Member, Community Research Review Board

Sherica Jones - Lewis

Director of Community Research

sdj6u@virginia.edu

Nadiya Khaydari

Nadiya Khaydari

JMU Undergraduate Intern, Youth Education Pipeline

Susan Kools, PhD, RN, FAAN, Madge M. Jones Professor in Nursing and Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion

Susan Kools

Faculty Director, Institutional Inequality

Kelly Kossi

Kelly Kossi

George Mason University Undergraduate Intern, Youth Education Pipeline

Dayna Matthew, Director, The Equity Center, and UVA Professor of Law

Dayna Bowen Matthew

National Advisory Committee, Equity Center Co Founder

Sarah Medley

Grant Writer/ Advancement Officer

smedley@virginia.edu

Leah Puryear

Leah Puryear

Local Steering Committee Member, Youth Education Pipeline

Sophie Trawalter, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC POLICY AND PSYCHOLOGY

Sophie Trawalter

Faculty Director, Grounded Theory of Structural Racism

Karen Waters-Wicks

Karen Waters-Wicks

Local Steering Committee Member and National Advisory Board Member, Community Research Review Board

B. Cameron Webb, MD, JD

B. Cameron Webb

Faculty Director

Barbara Brown Wilson

Barbara Brown Wilson

Faculty Director of the Equity Center

Tamara Wright

Tamara Wright

Local Steering Committee Member, Youth Education Pipeline

Erika Viccellio

Erika Viccellio

Local Steering Committee Member, Democratization of Data

Isabel Vargas

Doctoral Fellow, School of Education, Youth Education Pipeline

Camille Burnett

Camille Burnett

Founding Faculty Member

Chase Dawson

Summer Data Fellow, Democratization of Data

Bremen Donovan

Sound Justice Lab Postdoctoral Research Associate

Jacob Goldstein-Greenword

Summer Data Fellow, Democratization of Data

Khalila Karefa-Kargbo

Summer Data Fellow, Democratization of Data

Maya Koehn-Wu

Research Associate, Civic and Community Engagement

Lee LeBoeuf

Summer Data Fellow, Democratization of Data

Marisa Lemma

Summer Data Fellow, Democratization of Data

Helena Lindsay

Summer Data Fellow, Democratization of Data

Andrew Miller

Graduate Research Assistant for Youth Education Pipeline Programming

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Lucy Montalvo

Project Manager

eyb3nh@virginia.edu

Tolu Odukoya

Summer Data Fellow, Democratization of Data

Michael Salguerio

Michael Salgueiro

Research Programs Manager

ms5bv@virginia.edu

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Michelle Walton-Hawthorne

Finance Generalist

syg5zk@virginia.edu