Event Description

Following the inaugural MICD Just City Mayoral Fellowship–a collaboration between the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) and Harvard GSD's Just City Lab–the seven inaugural MICD Just City Mayoral Fellows discuss how to tackle racial injustices in each of their cities through planning and design interventions.


OPENING REMARKS by Sarah M. Whiting, Ra Joy, and Trinity Simons

PANEL 1: Memory, Place Narratives and the Just City
Featuring: Mayor Stephen K Benjamin (Columbia, SC), Mayor Errick D. Simmons (Greenville, MS), Mayor Yvonne M. Spicer (Framingham, MA), and Mayor Vince R. Williams (Union City, GA)
Moderator: Toni L. Griffin
Respondent: Brent Leggs

This event is supported by the Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Fund and presented by:
Mayor's Institute on City Design
National Endowment for the Arts
Unites States Conference of Mayors
The Just City Lab