Event
Economic Connectedness: Building Relationships that Expand Opportunity
Sep 12, 2024
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Zoom Videoconference
Many Americans today live in socioeconomic silos. Neighborhoods, schools, and even sports leagues offer few opportunities for connection between people of different financial status. As communities remain economically stratified, it is easy for Americans to be surrounded primarily by those who share the same class background.
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences launched a new resource to help bridge these divides. Speakers discussed why economic connectedness matters and how everyone can get involved in fostering the cross-class relationships that our economy and our democracy need.
This work is part of the Academy’s Commission on Reimagining Our Economy, whose final report calls for more economically connected communities.
Featuring
Speaker
Katherine J. Cramer
Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters and Science and Virginia Sapiro Professor of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Academy Member
Speaker
Lynda Gonzales-Chavez
Senior Vice President and Chief Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
YMCA of the USA
Speaker
Goodwin Liu
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California
Chair, Board of Directors, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Academy Member
Closing Remarks
Johannes Stroebel
David S. Loeb Professor of Finance; NBER Research Associate; CEPR Research Affiliate
New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business