Events

This follow up session in the From Local Innovation to Systemic Change webinar series explored how ARPA-fueled efforts to cancel medical debt could drive broader systemic change. Speakers included Former North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley, Dr. Luke Messac (Harvard Medical School instructor and author of Your Money or Your Life), and Lindsey Muniak, Medical Debt Organizer with the Debt Collective.

The first installment in the From Local Innovation to Systemic Change webinar series, this session showcased how local leaders are investing ARPA funds to tackle medical debt and advance economic and health equity. Featured speakers included Ohio Representative Michele Grim and Dr. Naman Shah, Director at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Co-hosted with Race Forward and GARE, this webinar highlighted case studies and strategies for equitably allocating and investing recovery funds, with speakers from San Mateo County and Austin, Texas.

This launch event marked the release of our national ARPA findings report and the debut of budgetequity.org. It featured a presentation of research insights followed by a panel with local leaders who are leveraging recovery funds for transformative change, including Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Roanoke Mayor Joe Cobb.

Co-hosted with PolicyLink, this webinar showcased how community and government leaders in Los Angeles County are using equity tools to invest $1.9 billion in ways that directly benefit those most impacted by the pandemic and structural racism. Speakers included representatives from the Los Angeles County Executive Office, the statewide advocacy organization Catalyst California, the Immigrants Are LA coalition, and the U.S. Treasury.