The Equity Center
A UVA Democracy Initiative center for the redress of inequity through community-engaged scholarship
Local Partnerships
The Equity Center is committed to being a good neighbor to our local community
2020 - 2021 Annual Report
Learn about our community-engaged work from the past year
Equity Center research presented at the National Association for Bilingual Education
Isabel Vargas and Lucy Montalvo shared their Multilingual Tutors Program
_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 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
This report is intended to assist Albemarle County Public Schools decision makers in developing programs that help students meet with success. The information in this report can be used to inform equitable learning recovery during the 2021-2022 school year and beyond.
Citation: Kyshia Henderson, Samuel Powers, Michele Claibourn, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Sophie Trawalter, "Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2021, 118 (42) e2103519118; DOI: 10.10
Book Launch: RACISM IN AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE
HOUSING JUSTICE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE: WHAT COULD REPARATIVE POLICIES AND PLANNING LOOK LIKE IN PRACTICE?
Implementing Liberating Service Learning
Higher Ed Community Engagement for Justice
Liberation and Freedom Days
What to do when COVID poses challenges for community engagement?
NEW CLASS OF EQUITY CENTER COMMUNITY FELLOWS JOINS UVA AS 2020 CLASS CONTINUES
Video series aims to reduce mental health stigma in black communities
Data Science for the Public Good Distinguished Speaker Series: Vicki Vasques
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