Participants: Stephanie Moulton, Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Felipe Blanco, Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver, Maria Cancian, Professor, Georgetown University, Sean McCandless, Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, James E. Wright II, Assistant Professor, Askew School of Public Administration and Public Policy at Florida State University

Diversity and equity are long-standing values among the practitioners and researchers in the APPAM community. In the present moment, uncertainty around funding, institutional support, and the security of researchers and research participants has grown due to increased scrutiny of research striving to advance social equity. The goal of this panel is to discuss the challenges of navigating research at the federal, state, and local levels; novel approaches to funding social equity research; management of partnerships with government and community-based organizations; dissemination of research to the public; and strategies to protect social equity research initiatives.