Neighborhoods and School Equity with Odis Johnson, Jr.

On March 25, 2021, Johns Hopkins’ 21st Century Cities Initiative hosted Odis Johnson, Jr., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and STEM Equity at Johns Hopkins, for a discussion of neighborhoods and school equity in American cities. Professor Johnson discussed when and where race and gender inequality in learning forms, residential socio-economic status effects and education inequality, and macroeconomic change and racialized education gaps.

Odis Johnson Jr. is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and STEM Equity at Johns Hopkins University, Senior Fellow at the 21st Century Cities Initiative, Executive Director of the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, and in the Department of Sociology at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He also directs the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM).