Racial Wealth Gap: Where Do We Go From Here?

April 26, 2022 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Virtual

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Thank you for joining the first event of the Chamber’s new series, The Racial Wealth Gap.

The Racial Wealth Gap series convened of national and local economic experts and community leaders to revisit The Color of Wealth, a 2015 research report that outlined the extensive racial wealth gap that impacts communities.

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Introducing The Newest Chamber Series

In partnership with The Boston Foundation, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The Barr Foundation, and Eastern Bank Foundation, the Chamber is a founding funder and partner in relaunching this critical research to discover economic, policy, and community solutions that will successfully address the barriers that hinder the creation of generational wealth for communities of color.

This launch event included a solutions-oriented discussion that explored how the business community can lead in urgently closing the racial wealth gap.

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Angelica Medina

Senior Program Manager

Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

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Speakers

Dr. Lee Pelton

President and CEO, The Boston Foundation

Lee Pelton is the CEO & President of The Boston Foundation, one of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations with $1.7 billion in assets. He joined…Read more

Lee Pelton is the CEO & President of The Boston Foundation, one of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations with $1.7 billion in assets. He joined the Foundation in June 2021, after serving as President of Emerson College (2011-2021) and Willamette University (1998-2011). Pelton began his academic career at Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. in English literature with an academic focus on 19th-century British prose and poetry. He taught English and American literature at Harvard and served as senior tutor at Winthrop House. He later served on the Harvard Board of Overseers and as a vice-chair of its executive committee. After Harvard, Pelton served as dean of the college at Colgate University and Dartmouth College. A well-respected thought and innovation leader, Pelton was named as a Living Legend by the Boston Museum of African American History in 2021 and inducted by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce into its Academy of Distinguished Bostonians in 2020. He has also received the Leader of Change Award from Trinity Boston Connects (2021), Governor’s Award from MassHumanities (2020) and the Robert Coard Distinguished Leadership Medal (2021) and was honored by the Eos Foundation with a $100,000 racial justice grant in his name (2020). He has also been frequently included on lists of civic leaders in Boston, most recently ranking 11th on Boston Magazine’s 2021 list of 100 Most Influential Bostonians in his fourth appearance on the list (2014, 2017, 2018). He was also listed as one of the 50 Most Powerful Leaders in Boston by the Boston Business Journal in 2018, 2020 and 2021. He has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post. Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Guardian (UK), Forbes, the Presidency Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Color Magazine, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Diversity Journal, and countless media in America and abroad. He has been a guest on National Public Radio (NPR) as well as on NPR affiliates WBUR and GBH, and on television on CBS, ABC and Boston’s PBS affiliate television station, GBH2. He has received honorary degrees from the Urban College of Boston, Wichita State University and Tokyo International University. Over the years, Pelton has been active in several higher education associations and cultural organizations including the Board of Directors of the American Council on Education (past chair), the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Association of American Colleges & Universities and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts. In addition to his service as a Harvard Overseer, he has served as a member of the Harvard University Graduate School Alumni Council, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, Harvard Magazine, Board of Incorporators and several Harvard Visiting Committees. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce (executive committee, nominating & governance committee, co-chair), and on the Board of Trustees of public media pioneer GBH (executive, finance and compensation committees) and the Barr Foundation, one of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations, with more than $3 billion in assets. His previous awards and recognition also include: Boston’s 100 Most Influential People of Color (Get Konnected!, 2016) The Rosoff Award 20/20 (The Ad Club, April 2016) The Diversity Leadership Award (The National Diversity Council, October 2015) The Sabra Award (Israeli Stage, November 2014) Boston 50 on Fire, recognizing 50 leading innovators in Boston ( November 2014) Speak the Truth Award (Student Immigrant Movement, December 2014) Champion of Freedom Award (Freedom House, March 2012). Pelton grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and resides in Boston.

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Prabal Chakrabarti

Executive Vice President & Community Affairs Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Prabal Chakrabarti is an Executive Vice-President at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and oversees the Regional and Community Outreach department, which works…Read more

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Dr. Karilyn Crockett

Professor | Urban History, Policy & Planning, MIT

Dr. Karilyn Crockett’s research focuses on large-scale land use changes in twentieth century American cities and examines the social and geographic implications…Read more

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Ana Patricia Muñoz

Executive Director, FARO

Ana Patricia Muñoz is the Executive Director of FARO, non-partisan Ecuadorian Think Tank that generates research and implements initiatives to influence public…Read more

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