SOTC by the #s
Unemployment rate in 2022 (+/- 1%)
What was 5.9%?
Led the process to create SOTC 2023
Who is Katie Martin?
Newest policy team member?
Who is Catie Wolfgang?
Newest research team member
Who is Alix Sullivan?
She leads up Pew's research and policy work, as well as its arts and culture and religion grantmaking
Who is Elinor Haider?
How Philadelphia compares nationally when it comes to the percentage of residents 25+ who have college degree? (options: better, worse, same)
What is the same? (at 35%)
Number of years Pew has produced a SOTC report
What is 15?
The research team's housing expert
Who is Octavia Howell?
Returned Monday from parental leave?
Who is Rashaun Hall?
The name of a year-long storytelling initiative aimed at centering and collecting the lived experiences of Philadelphians as they pursue their economic goals
What is Thriving?
Share of Philadelphia renters spending at least 30% of their income on housing (within +/- 5%)
What is 48.9%?
Major partner for the SOTC event hosted at the Free Library in April 2023
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Recipient of the Forum of Executive Women's 2023 Award for Emerging Women Leaders
Who is Mari Gonazalez?
Once the Executive Director of Philadelphia VIP
Who is Sophie Bryan?
Pew's dashboard tracks Philadelphia's economic recovery and growth via 9 interactive charts covering this period of time
What is 'from the pandemic shut down to the present'?
(any answer that generally captures this time frame is a winner!)
Median household income in 2021 (within $2,000)
What is $52,899?
Moderator of the panel discussion at the April 2023 SOTC release event at the Free Library
Who is Michael O'Bryan?
Founding members of the research team
Who are Larry Eichel and Tom Ginsberg?
Once the managing editor of opinion at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Who is Sandy Shea?
A new collaborative learning initiative aimed at supporting Philadelphia's next generation of decision-makers
What is the Emerging Leaders Corps?
Any four of the top 10 countries of origin for Philadelphians born outside of the U.S. in 2021
What are....China, Dominican Republic, India, Vietnam, Jamaica, Haiti, Mexico, Ukraine, Brazil, Cambodia
Any one of the panelists featured at the 2023 State of the City launch event
Who is....
Rev. Luis Cortes Jr., founder, president, and chief executive officer of Esperanza
Dr. Adriana Torres-O’Connor, president and chief executive officer of the local nonprofit Mental Health Partnerships
Wil Reynolds, chief executive officer and vice president, innovation, of Seer Interactive, a Philadelphia-based digital marketing firm
Dr. Akira Drake Rodriguez, assistant professor at the Weitzmann School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania
Once served as an AmeriCorps VISTA
Who is Jun Ho Phue?
OR
Who is Jen Clendening?
Meridith Polin's Pickleball partner
Who is Jason Hachadorian?
This summer the policy team is hosting a three part series of webinars on this topic
What is data driven performance management?