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Equity Innovation Hub
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Reimagining cities where all can flourish
The Equity Innovation Hub, led by Kimberlyn Leary, Ph.D., MPA, is a think-and-do lab based at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Launching formally in the spring of 2025, the Hub already supports current and future government and community leaders in data-driven innovation and to collaborate across boundaries to advance equitable outcomes.
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Our Topics and Practice Areas
- Health and public health equity
- Public service delivery
- Environmental and climate justice
- Wealth, mobility, and opportunity gaps
- Digital divides and “AI for good” in public service delivery
- Democracy and government innovation
Dr. Leary's Executive Education Teaching Portfolio:
Cross-Boundary Collaboration, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
Leading City Procurement Reform, with Professor Jeffrey Liebman and the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
Program for New Mayors: First 100 Days, with Professor Mitch Weiss, Harvard Business School, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
NeighborWorks America Achieving Excellence Program for executive leaders in the affordable housing and community finance development, Harvard Kennedy School
Health Equity by Design, Harvard Medical School
Our Contributions
Equitable Government
- How the White House is Continuing to Prioritize Equity. Urban Wire, 2024.
- Making Equity Work Through the Federal Government: A Conversation with Recent Senior White House Leaders. Program on Political Reform, New America, 2023.
- Advancing Equitable Government 2.0. Urban Wire, 2023.
- Study to Identify Methods to Assess Equity: Report to the President, as required by section 4 of Executive Order 13985, On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, 2021.
Health Equity
- The Last Piece of the Puzzle that Makes all the Difference in the World: Team-Facing Medical Legal Partnership for Reproductive Care. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2023.
- Defunding the Social Production of Ignorance: Addressing Racism in Research Begins with Funders. The Boston Congress of Public Health Review, 2021.
- Addressing the Opioid Crisis: Lessons Learned from New York City. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2020.
Leading Change
- On the Necessity of Equity in Business. Edelman Institute’s Trustmakers, 2023.
- Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership. HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series, 2022.
- Catalyzing Leadership for Equity. The Urban Institute, 2022.
- To Truly Advance Racial Equity, City Leaders Need to Confront Racist Symbols. Urban Wire, 2021.
Climate Change
- How City Leaders Can Spur Youth Engagement on Climate. Bloomberg Cities, 2024.
Podcasts
- Evidence in Action: A Podcast of the Urban Institute, since 2024. Cross-sectoral changemakers address the question: What does it look like for evidence to drive change for people and communities?
- Agility at Work, since 2019. This 40-session podcast welcomes authors and other guests to share actionable advice on adaptive leadership and agile negotiation.
Our People
Faculty Director, Founder
Research and Program Director
Executive and Faculty Assistant
Fellow
“Good Services”
Chief Equity Officers Collaborative
Research-to-Action Field-building
“Good Services”
“Good Services”
Improving outcomes for city residents by identifying, building on, and scaling leading practices for delivering more effective public services through integrating disciplines like behavioral insights, customer experience, and implementation science.
Chief Equity Officers Collaborative
Chief Equity Officers Collaborative
A learning community for municipal Chief Equity Officers, with Data-Smart City Solutions.
Research-to-Action Field-building
Research-to-Action Field-building
Equipping leaders and communities with practical and essential data, tools, and insights to nimbly advance equitable outcomes in complex policy, legal, and regulatory environments.
Featured Research
Forthcoming:
An Inflection Point for Equity or Just Another Twist and Turn?: It All Depends on What We Make of It
Municipal Chief Equity Officers: A New Role to Realize the Vision of Equitable Cities
