Equitable Cities LLC
Sam Kling serves as the Director of Cities at Equitable Cities LLC since February 2024. Previously, Sam Kling held multiple roles at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs from September 2018 to February 2024, including Director of Global Cities Research and Global Cities Fellow, as well as serving as an ACLS/Mellon Public Fellow and Global Cities Fellow. Additionally, in early 2018, Sam Kling was a Visiting Lecturer in History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Educational credentials include a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Urban History and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Urban History, both from Northwestern University, completed between 2010 and 2017.
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Equitable Cities LLC
Equitable Cities is committed to bringing community narratives, visions, and values into our research, planning, and policy recommendations through the local knowledge of the communities we work in. Our goal is to reconnect communities suffering from disinvestment through transportation planning and research that focuses on the way the community experiences their streets. Equitable Cities has over 15 years of experience leading or collaborating with public agencies and non-profit groups on a number of plans, projects, programs and training on Complete Streets, equity and environmental justice, public outreach and engagement, Vision Zero, bike share, and bicycle and pedestrian master planning. We work directly with federal, state, regional, county, and municipal governments, for-profit and nonprofit organizations throughout North America. Our core services include: Urban planning and design Public outreach and engagement Training and workshop development Technical assistance Quantitative and qualitative research (e.g. focus groups, surveys, equity analysis, etc.) Program evaluation