How Religious Organizations Can Respond to Educational Inequality in a Time of COVID

The Religion and Public Life Program (RPLP) hosted an online event, "How Religious Organizations Can Respond to Educational Inequality in a Time of COVID," on September 21, 2020. COVID-19 has exposed and made greater existing inequalities. This has been especially true with relationship to economic differences and racial differences in the kind of education that students are getting during the pandemic and the long-term educational impact of the pandemic. The RPLP invited several guests to speak to these issues and more: Esmeralda Sanchez Salazar, RPLP graduate student fellow; Marilyn Lee, executive director of Loving Houston; and Brandon Walker, president of The Summer Institute.