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Repa Mekha has more than 30 years of experience in community building and systems change work. Currently, he is the President & CEO of Nexus Community Partners. In this episode, Chanda…

Miranda Hayes didn’t expect to graduate from high school, much less attend college. She faced extreme verbal bullying and demeaning comments from teachers when she got to high school in…

Back in 2019, The Learning Accelerator (TLA) partnered with six other remote organizations based in education to form the Remote DEI Collective (RDC), a community of practice focused on the intersections of…

Tucked next to the 105 Freeway, just east of the Los Angeles International Airport, is the Lennox Community Garden. Once an agricultural hamlet, Lennox is now a densely built neighborhood cornered by…

As program officers at the Ford Foundation who helped commission CEP’s two-part study, Foundations Respond to Crisis, we’re heartened to see that many funders plan to maintain the more flexible practices…

Pandemics and recessions have the potential to exacerbate existing health inequalities between men and women. Many social factors can put women at a higher risk of infection during a pandemic.…

Part two in a multi-part series. Read parts one, three, and four. It’s time to rethink how we create economic prosperity in our neighborhoods. In cities across the U.S., rapid development often…

The long pandemic – now in its fourth major wave in the US, with a death toll reaching over 900,000 – has so deeply impacted daily life that it is…

Diverse representative leadership in the United States is taking on deeper meaning in 2022 – especially for the nation’s 22.9 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who call the country home. Anti-Asian…

Droughts occurring at the same time across different regions of the planet could place an unprecedented strain on the global agricultural system and threaten the water security of millions of…

A recently published study exposed what authors say is an “unhealthy conflict” in judicial systems, “between using fines and fees as both a source of revenue and punishment, and said…

Severe heat kills more people in the United States than any other hazardous weather-related event. As climate change accelerates, the sweltering heat will become much more extreme, and the associated mortality rate will…