Smart Growth America’s Equity Summit

A blue and green ombre graphic with the following text: Save the date! Smart Growth America's Equity Summit returns to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, on March 26  & 27, 2025. Stay tuned for more information on speakers and early bird tickets. This year's theme is Building forward: A shared movement for vibrant communities.

Save the date! Smart Growth America’s Equity Summit returns to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, on March 26  & 27, 2025. Stay tuned for more information on speakers and early bird tickets.

Want to sponsor the Equity Summit? Learn more here and reach out to us at [email protected]

Equity Summit 2024

The 2024 Equity Summit was a huge success! We’re so thankful to have spent two days with thought leaders, advocates, and practitioners learning more about how they’re working to create more equitable transportation, housing, and land use outcomes in their communities. Read more about this year’s Summit in our recap >>

Want to see more recordings? Visit our YouTube channel to view the keynote, mainstage, and concurrent panel discussions.

Read the 2024 Equity Summit discussion guides

Whether you’re a policymaker, planner, advocate, or community organizer, you can use our discussion guides that hone in on key themes and takeaways from the 2024 Equity Summit to keep the conversations going in your community. Click the images to access the discussion guides below, or click here for all Equity Summit discussion guides. 

 

Explore the speakers and content from the 2024 Equity Summit here

 


Learn more about our past Equity programming

At Smart Growth America, we deeply believe that advancing racial equity is at the core of a smart growth approach. But what does that mean? How does it work in practice? And how can smart growth advocates do it better?

The Equity Summit—SGA’s largest event of the year—is a gathering of thought leaders and practitioners who work to ensure that racial equity is a key priority in any smart growth approach. Since the Equity Summit’s inception in 2021, our annual event has brought together an amazing lineup of speakers to discuss the intersections of racial equity and the smart growth movement,  making the case that smart growth without a focus on equity isn’t smart growth at all.  Learn more about our past Equity programming: