Create the Village
Discussions about the intersection of public policy and community development.
Episodes
A year ago, we published an episode of Create the Village entitled, “Has ‘Infrastructure Week’ Finally Arrived?” There was plenty of conversation, rolling into a national election, that supported the idea that the time had finally come…that after years of neglect and procrastinating, Washington was ready to enact a massive program to address crumbling highways, a patchwork of high-speed internet access, and inadequate public transi...
In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, Dr. Calvin Mackie was appointed to the 33-member board of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. In 2009, he was appointed to the Louisiana Council on the Social Status of Black Boys and Black Men. Recently, Mackie was appointed to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board. In 2014, Dr. Mackie founded STEM NOLA, a non-profit organization created to expose, inspire, and eng...
Sherri Powell founded the Rural America Chamber of Commerce in 2021. She's working to empower rural entrepreneurs and to advocate for their economies and communities, and she's not stopping there. Not afraid to dig into the real issues, she's helping them talk about things like racism in America.
Deidre Woollard, an Editor at Million Acres, a division of Motley Fool, returns to Create The Village to discuss the ongoing market confusion and looming problems facing the real estate and banking industries and local and state governments.
President and chief executive officer of the YMCA of Metro Atlanta, Lauren Koontz, discusses her leadership in the midst of a worldwide pandemic and period of national racial awareness.
This week’s episode of Create the Village is a potent conversation about some of the issues of inequality facing the U.S. and some of the policy initiatives designed to raise awareness. Linda Goler Blount is President and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, the only national organization focused on Black women’s emotional, physical and financial health and wellness. After one year of pandemic, the conversation between Bloun...
Mary Means is an award-winning community planner and innovator who has led the movement in Main Street Revitalization for more than four decades. She has been dubbed the Queen of Main Street by her colleagues and industry leaders. Today, Mary is a popular conference speaker and continues to help public interest clients envision and build consensus to make their communities better places to live and work.
When discussing Mary Means,...
Guest: John O’Callaghan, President and CEO of Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP). Atlanta is famous for the ebb and flow of its real estate market. And, while some parts of the metro area are certainly doing well, some parts of the market are still feeling the impact of the 2008 foreclosure crisis.
Atlanta is famous for the ebb and flow of its real estate market. And, while some parts of the metro area are certainl...
Jill Barshay and Egbert Perry discuss the barriers to educational attainment for children from modest-income households during the pandemic and the lasting impact of a lost generation of students.
Barshay ...
Egbert Perry, CEO of Integral, and Hollis Towns, VP of local news at Gannett, discuss the recent Georgia special election, the assault on the US Capitol, and what the public can expect from media companies during this era.
Susan K. Thomas, president of the Melville Charitable Trust, where she oversees the Trust’s grantmaking strategy, philanthropic partnerships and administration.
We’re living in the midst of a technological revolution and the Digital Divide is leaving millions behind. Autumn Glover, an urban planner passionate about “The Intersection of Race, Place and Health” joined Egbert Perry on this week’s episode of Create the Village. Also joining the conversation was Eric Pinckney, the Project Executive responsible for the implementation of Assembly in Doraville, GA, which is a 145 acre, 10 million ...
Edward Golding, Executive Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy, discusses "The Unequal Costs of Black Homeownership" with Egbert Perry.
Egbert Perry discusses the lasting effects of structural decisions made by political governance, governance that is emerging in the wake of decades of policies that intentionally advantaged some over others.
In this episode of Create the Village, Egbert Perry explores how market forces can be leveraged to diminish systemic inequities that are rooted in existing social dynamics and public policies.
The podcast’s second season launches with what is summed up best by host Egbert Perry, “There is no question that a lot of people have been awakened to the disparities (in the US), the inequities that are drawn along racial lines. Now, the question is are we prepared to change enough in our system, you know economic system, to deal with the reality that we just discovered.”
Egbert Perry’s thoughts about where we are roughly 120 days into this new era.
How the COVID-19 pandemic will impact architecture, public spaces, and real estate.
Guests:
Eugénie “Genie” Birch FAICP, FAcSS, RTPI (hon), the Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research, Department of City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania and co-director of Penn Institute for Urban Research
Susan M. Wachter, the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance at The Wharton S...
How COVID-19 is impacting our educational system. Guests: Dr. Harris Cooper, The Hugo L. Blomquist Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
at Duke University; Dr. Raymond Hart, Director of Research for the Council of the Great City Schools.
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