IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub recently published an op-ed written by SDSN USA Co-Chair Prof. Helen Bond, SDSN USA DEJ4SD Co-Chair Deepa Vedavyas, and Prof. Justin Hansford from Howard University on the need for countries to "refocus and reaffirm" their efforts towards the principle: leave no one behind (LNOB).
On Thursday, April 13, 2023, the City of Cleveland, SDSN, and the Cleveland Foundation held the city’s first Decarbonization Summit to discuss pathways for reducing the city’s carbon emission levels.
In honor of Women’s History Month and National Nutrition Month, SDSN USA hosted Zero Hunger Pathways Project Dialogue 5: Exploring Equitable Approaches to Ending Hunger in America on March 28th, 2022. Jointly organized by US SDSN’s Zero Hunger Pathways Project (ZHPP), Diversity, Equity, and Justice for Sustainable Development (DEJ) Working Group, and Howard University’s Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership, it explored the impact of historic inequities and what policies and approaches are needed to address racial and gender inequities to put the country on the pathway to zero hunger.
This Hispanic Heritage Month, SDSN USA and We Are All Human Foundation co-hosted a research panel webinar with presentations from SDSN USA members on important Hispanic related research being done throughout the country. The event highlighted research on a range of topics across the SDGs, including localized delivery and tracking of the SDGs in cities, efforts to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine and other public health research to underserved communities, and internalized belonging for first-generation students.
Dr. Helen Bond, Co-chair of SDSN USA, and Alainna Lynch, Research Manager of SDSN USA, joined the host of SDG Talks Podcast to discuss recent racial inequality report, In the Red: the US Failure to Deliver on a Promise of Racial Inequality, as well as SDSN USA’s other work on diversity, equity, and justice.
On July 28th, 2021, SDSN USA and The Hispanic Star co-hosted a webinar focused on helping SDSN USA members and partners plan activations for Hispanic Heritage Month.
The SDSN USA Research team created an ArcGIS StoryMap to illustrate and provide context for the results of In the Red: the US Failure to Deliver on a Promise of Racial Equality. The StoryMap lays out how the project findings point to an unfulfilled promise of racial equality based on an unequal distribution of resources, services, and opportunities by race. The StoryMap includes high quality maps and graphs from the report, highlighting disparities in indicators like life expectancy and children attending high poverty schools, and expands on the lack of publicly available racially and ethnically disaggregated data, another key takeaway from the project.
