Super City: Scholar Takes Aim at Communities
Dr. JoAnna Brown is a senior fellow at Sagamore Institute specializing in research aimed at building better urban, rural, and suburban communities.
Dr. JoAnna Brown is a senior fellow at Sagamore Institute specializing in research aimed at building better urban, rural, and suburban communities.
In July 2019, Sagamore Institute hosted the 5th annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship at the Harrison Center in Indianapolis.
On February 28th, 2020, Sagamore Institute hosted an art gallery event in partnership with the Harrison Center for the Arts and sponsored by Indiana Humanities. The gallery includes 8 original pieces from seven local artists centered around the theme of citizenship. These pieces highlight the unique perspectives of Heartland and Indiana citizens throughout the history of our great American experiment.
New Super City /new-super-city Super City There are no great cities without great neighborhoods. Yet, too many of our neighbors are facing increasing threats from crime, food insecurity, inferior K-12…
A few years ago in a powerful op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote that “the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times.”
The tragedy of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis rocked America. The response revealed much division but also two lanes of action to bring healing and hope: criminal justice reform and expanding economic opportunity. Please see below for stories about Sagamore’s efforts in both of these strategies.
Sagamore is committed to developing the next generation of young leaders with a creative vision to pursue the common good and advance human flourishing. We welcome the following students who share a passion for championing free enterprise, fostering individual opportunity, and expanding democracy.
On February 28th, 2020, Sagamore Institute hosted an art gallery event in partnership with the Harrison Center for the Arts and sponsored by Indiana Humanities. The gallery includes 8 original pieces from seven local artists centered around the theme of citizenship. These pieces highlight the unique perspectives of Heartland and Indiana citizens throughout the history of our great American experiment.
On April 16, 2020, the Sagamore Institute hosted a virtual town hall featuring US Senator Todd Young on the subject of America’s critical response to COVID-19. The Senator offered perspectives from both Washington and Indiana, and engaged in a Q&A session with participants on the call.