The practice of redlining is one of the most tactile examples of how invasive racism is across and within every structure of American society: education, housing, transportation, community-building, employment, civic participation and more.
We are fortunate to have Justice Castaneda, the Executive Director of Common Wealth Development, a long-standing community development organization in Madison, WI, to inform us on these significant and often silent aspects of racism embedded in our society. Justice is an educator and community development specialist by trade. He will share his professional and academic work exploring the intersections of housing policy, economic development and community violence, and the role these intersections play in educational & life outcomes for youth who have experienced traumatic events in early childhood and adolescence. His most recent work explores the relationship between land-use policies (including housing policy) and economic / educational outcomes for youth in Madison, WI.
He is concurrently completing his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He completed his undergraduate work in planning at UC San Diego, a Master of Arts in Policy, Organization and Leadership Studies from the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, and earned his Masters of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he focused on housing policy, community & economic development before accepting a fellowship with the Center for Health and Communities at the University of California, San Francisco medical campus. A Madison, WI native, his career began in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he spent 8 years before being honorably discharged. Before returning to Madison, Justice worked nationally on housing and economic development initiatives for governments and philanthropic partners.
