Welcome and opening remarks: SBAN Director Willow Lung-Amam, Ph.D., and Cate Costa, Vice President, Global Small Business Philanthropy, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Keynote speaker: Loretta Lees, Ph.D, is an internationally known gentrification expert, author, activist and Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, where she is also a professor in the sociology department. Drawing on examples from the U.K., the U.S., and globally, Lees will kick off the conference with an address on gentrification and displacement, the impact on small businesses, and the place of small businesses in anti-gentrification activism.