Time and Place
5:50 to 7:30 pm
AUP 126 – School of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2131 E. Hartford Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53211
Please register for the virtual lecture here
Center for Equity Practice and Planning Justice
“Structural Integrity: How Community Power Reinforces Community Wealth Building” conversation Daniel O. Ash, President, Field Foundation and Milwaukee Stakeholders Panel
THE COMMUNITY WEALTH BUILDING AND COMMUNITY POWER IMPERATIVE DISCUSSION:
Join us for an illuminating discussion on the vital connection between community power and community wealth. Planners and Architects know that equitable placemaking depends on properly reinforced elements working together. In this dynamic conversation with stakeholders and leaders from the City of Milwaukee, Daniel O. Ash will share insights from his experiences leading the Field Foundation and championing community-driven approaches to development. Together, we will explore practical strategies for ensuring community voice and control become the foundation for sustainable wealth creation in historically disinvested neighborhoods. We will examine how Milwaukee can pioneer development models that build economic assets while preserving neighborhood identity and preventing displacement—reimagining an urban development approach where power and prosperity remain in community hands.
The Discussion Framework:
Power Enables Wealth: How organized communities gain control of land, capital, and development decisions
Wealth Reinforces Power: When economic assets strengthen community voice and sustainability
Self-Perpetuating Strength: Creating development models where each success builds capacity for the next
Breaking Extractive Patterns: Replacing outside-in development with community-controlled cycles of reinvestment
Philanthropy’s Catalyst Role: Moving beyond transactions and investing in community transformation
BIO:
Daniel Ash is president of the Field Foundation, a private and independent foundation that invests in civic infrastructure, the cultural sector, local news outlets, and organizers to support power building in Chicago. Alongside its strategic partners, the Field Foundation distributes more than $10 million annually to nonprofit organizations and leaders, focusing primarily on the city’s South and West Sides. Daniel was selected as a Leadership Greater Chicago Daniel Burnham Fellow in 2023, and he has been recognized as a Crain’s Chicago Notable Leader in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Daniel served as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton University.
AICP-CM credits will be awarded.
All lectures are free and open to planners, students, staff, faculty, and friends of the University. Please contact Maria Holman at equitypracticeplanningjustice@gmail.com
