The MICD Just City Mayoral Fellowship is a program of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design in parntership with the Just City Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. This unique and highly interactive program brings together a small group of mayors to directly tackle injustices in each of their cities through planning and design interventions.
The 2024 Fellowship followed a hybrid in-person and virtual format between February and April of 2024. This year’s Fellowship introduced mayors and their staff to the concepts of social impact and justice-centered design, equity framework measurement tools, and innovative design practices that increase just and equitable outcomes. Each mayor also explored conditions of injustice in their own community, culminating in a manifesto of action.
2024 MICD Just City Mayoral Fellows
Mayor Matthew Tuerk | Allentown, PA
Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud | Dearborn, MI
Mayor Sharetta Smith | Lima, OH
Mayor Rex Richardson | Long Beach, CA
Mayor Remy Drabkin | McMinnville, OR
Mayor Cory Mason | Racine, WI
Mayor Kate Colin | San Rafael, CA
Read more about the MICD Just City Mayoral Fellowship
In a closing panel discussion, recorded April 19, 2024 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), the seven Mayoral Fellows explored the efforts their cities are taking to embed equity and justice goals in government processes and practices. Watch the conversation here.
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