The Initiative for Community Power:
- Creates academic and professional opportunities to examine the ideological, legal, and policy groundings of inequality across sectors and the assault on democracy in the United States and beyond;
- Promotes dialogue among diverse groups to reframe understandings of law, policy and governance within a social justice framework; and develop innovative approaches to strengthening democracy and confronting inequality on a variety of fronts, with a particular emphasis on racial and economic inequality;
- Trains an emerging generation of students and civic leaders;
- Creates field-based learning and leadership development opportunities for students and recent graduates of NYU’s School of Law and Wagner School of Public Service, as well as from other NYU graduate and undergraduate programs;
- Brings together students and faculty at NYU and at other law schools and schools of public affairs to advance movement building and social change efforts across schools and fields;
- Examines how inequality functions, is exacerbated, and can be disrupted – in our economy, in our democracy, and, on particular issues, such as taxation, climate justice, etc.