A challenge for 21st century cities is how to foster economic growth that benefits all stakeholders—present and future residents, businesses and non-profit institutions—without gentrification or worsening entrenched inequality. Few cities have taken on this project like Newark, NJ. Equitable Growth in the City will bring together elected officials, community-based actors, scholars and members of the private sector in conversation about how to equitably address the problems and approaches to growing cities like Newark.

Professor David Troutt discusses the Center’s work and the intersections of race, class, and place in urban settings.

CLiME Director David D. Troutt in conversation with Fordham Law's Prof. Tanya Hernandez, author of "Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination," January 23, 6pm at the Newark Public Library. Cosponsored by the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, RU-Newark's Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Center-Newark and Rutgers Law School

The Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) is proud to host this interdisciplinary, day-long conference on psychological trauma among children—especially low-income school children—and their interaction with the chief institution in their lives outside the home: schools. Both panelists and audience members have been recruited for their outstanding work in fields related to children at-risk for trauma exposure. Our speakers are leading …