Local Partnerships
The Equity Center is committed to being a good neighbor to our local community
_mpathic design: The Great Migration selected for 2022 ASCA award
Faculty Director of Design Justice, Elgin Cleckley, was awarded a Creative Achievement Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
2021 - 2022 Annual Report
Learn about our community-engaged work from the past year
Virginia Evictors Catalog Launched
The Virginia Evictors Catalog provides data about plaintiffs filing unlawful detainers (evictions) in Virginia's General District Courts from January 2018 through September 2022.
2021 Community Fellow-in-Resident Benita Mayo published in Virginia Quarterly
Her photodocumentary series capturing Black maternity and childbirth experiences featured
Picturing Climate Justice
Exhibit at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Starr Hill Pathways
Learn more about our newest and most ambitious program for local middle schoolers
UVA Equity Center Provides Middle School Students a College Experience
Starr Hill Pathways Summer Program launched in summer 2022
Orange Dot 5.0 Report
Orange Dot 5.0 marks the beginning of an annual update completed in partnership between Network2Work@PVCC and The Equity Center at the University of Virginia
Announcement
From The Equity Center
This report is a yearlong summary of the Starr Hill Pathways program from August 2022-May 2023.
Past Events
Curry Research Lectureship Series: Dr. Bianca Baldridge
Reimagining Youth Work(ers) and the Ongoing Struggle for Racial Justice
Dr. Bianca Baldridge
Bianca J. Baldridge is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. As a sociologist of education, Bianca’s scholarship explores the socio-political context of community-based youth
work and afterschool education. Bianca’s research critically examines the confluence of race, class, and gender, and its impact
August 2020 Newsletter
Fifth week of Cities Rising Summit to focus on education equity
Three years later, Charlottesville looks to educator Benjamin Tonsler’s legacy
"There’s a deadly paradox here. This virus is amplifying racial inequities with a disproportionate impact on the Black and Latinx communities, locally as well as nationally. To limit in-person school is to honor the health of the Black and brown community. But without radical thinking and quick action, we risk perpetuating educational inequities."
Tanesha Hudson, Community Fellow-in-Residence, Premieres R.A.C.E. Podcast
Local Steering Committee Member Charlene Green talks to TomTom Founder Paul Beyer about Friendship Court Renewal
Local Steering Committee Member Don Gathers Speaks out against racist threats that cut short his city council run
Local Steering Committee Member Daniel Fairley 'Runs with Ahmaud'
Local Steering Committee Member Shantell Bingham Featured in "Determined" Series
Shantell Bingham of Cultivate Charlottesville was featured in Charlottesville Tomorrow and Vinegar Hill Magazine's "Determined to be Nourished" article.
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