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Ashley Clark speaking at Data Day

UNC Charlotte Urban Institute staff are experienced speakers and presenters on a variety of topics. If you’d like a speaker for your event, please feel free to contact the speakers listed, or contact the institute’s main offices at 704-687-1210 or urbaninstitute@charlotte.edu.

Speakers

Bridget Anderson
Research Associate

Expertise

  • Homelessness
  • Public Health
  • Social Capital
Sydney Idzikowski
Associate Director, Charlotte Regional Data Trust
Charlotte Regional Data Trust

Expertise

  • Racial Wealth Gap
  • Integrated Data Systems
  • Education
  • Health
Bill McCoy
Emeritus Faculty
UNC Charlotte

Expertise

  • Age-Friendly communities
  • Housing issues for older adults
  • Community design for older adults
  • Senior villages as an Aging in Place strategy​
Lori Thomas, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Urban Institute and Charlotte Regional Data Trust

Expertise

  • Housing instability
  • Chronic homelessness
  • Mixed Methods research
  • Evaluation
  • Participatory research models
Katie Zager
Research Associate

Expertise

  • Quality of Life Explorer
  • GIS coding/mapping
  • Public Health