Looking forward to this this afternoon 🤗

My favorite people on the planet. Congrats Bucknell c/o 2021 🎉🥰

Tune in June 24 to learn how private sector leaders are integrating equity into their business strategies. @justcapital_and Brookings Metro will showcase examples from Dr. Juhanna Rogers in Syracuse, Cincinnati Regional Chamber and Root Insurance in Columbus. Register: bit.ly/34WfQnq

Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: "My life isn’t worth a dead-end job" wapo.st/3j21qKv

Congratulations to Brookings Metro on this beautiful new chapter 🥳. Very grateful that I was able to play a role in this transformative work 💙

Update! I’m all done with my graduate degree, and I’ll be sticking around the Bay Area for a little while longer to work in SF. Tremendous gratitude to everyone who has supported my journey 🫶🏽

Black community leaders in San Francisco have a message for City Hall: don’t defund the Dream Keeper Initiative. Yes, Mayor London Breed’s signature effort has been tainted by scandal. But the program’s successes far outweigh those missteps, they say. trib.al/NXC35v1

Great listen on my Sunday morning walk from ⁦National League of Cities⁩ on how cities are utilizing AI for economic development and other city services podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cit…

This new piece brings together insights from Brookings Metro scholars, examining how the next 4 years might shape cities, regions, communities across the U.S. Check it out --> brookings.edu/articles/whats…

NEW: Amazon charges 48,000 DC residents in Wards 7 & 8 for full Prime membership while excluding them from Prime delivery benefits. Amazon failed to inform customers they were excluded. We are suing Amazon for deceiving DC residents into paying the same price for worse service.

How can US downtowns be revitalized? In a new Governing article, Urban President Sarah Rosen Wartell shares ways that downtowns can be reimagined in a post-#pandemic world, with an emphasis on creating #inclusive spaces and building #community. urbn.is/407kz1G

Doni Crawford, who was appointed to the D.C. Council last month, is running for the at-large seat, she tells me. "I would say, of course, the word of the year is affordability," she tells Axios. axios.com/local/washingt…