The Equity Center, U.Va.

The Equity Center

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

 

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Leadership

Ben Allen

Executive Director

eba5b@virginia.edu
Damian Banks, Founder, Banks Collage

Damien "Snake" Banks

Local Steering Committee Member, Youth Education Pipeline
Noah Beamon

Noah Beamon

Undergraduate Intern, 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
Casey Burton

Casey Burton

Research Associate, Community Engaged Scholarship
Victoria Carter-Johnson

Victoria Carter-Johnson

Howard Undergraduate Intern, Equity Center Operations
Michele Claibourn

Michele Claibourn

Director of Equitable Analysis

mpc8t@virginia.edu

Elgin Cleckley

Faculty Director, Design Justice
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Nancy L. Deutsch

Faculty Director, Youth Education Pipeline
Kimalee Dickerson

Kimalee Dickerson

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
Alicia Land

Alicia Land

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
Sam Powers

Sam Powers

Statistician, Data Visualization Practitioner
Leah Puryear

Leah Puryear

Local Steering Committee Member, Youth Education Pipeline
Megan Rivera

Megan Rivera

Research Associate, Grounded Theory of Structural Racism
Morgan Smith

Morgan Smith

Research Associate, Democratization of Data
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
Christian West

Christian West

Research Associate, Democratization of Data
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
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Lucy Montalvo

Project Manager

eyb3nh@virginia.edu
Michael Salguerio

Michael Salgueiro

Research Programs Manager

ms5bv@virginia.edu
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Michelle Walton-Hawthorne

Finance Generalist

syg5zk@virginia.edu
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Janie Day Whitworth

Research Associate, Democratization of Data