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
VISUALIZING ALBEMARLE COUNTY MAGISTERIAL REDISTRICTING WITH AN EQUITY LENS
Our Equity Atlas helps local policy makers in efforts to redistrict equitably
_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).
Equity Center Summer Program Evaluation
Our innovative middle school summer programming blended UVA and community resources.
New directory focuses on area’s Black businesses
A project by Community Fellow-in-Residence Destinee Wright
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
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
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
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Past Events
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
Monticello’s Descendant Community: Young Voices Rising
Distinguished Dozen: Bonnie Gordon touches all the right notes with community work
HISTORY IS NOW: WHAT IS AMERICA'S STORY?
Black newborns die at a higher rate than white newborns. A UVA fellow aims to shine a light on the disparity.
To Be a Good Neighbor
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