Welcome to the final panel of the Boston Area Research Initiative's 2020 Conference, The Smart, Equitable Commonwealth: Co-Creating the Society We Want. Week 14's closing keynote panel was called What Cities and Towns Need Now.

The panel was moderated by Sid Espinosa, Director of Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at Microsoft and the former Mayor of Palo Alto, California. Our panelists were:

Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Boston
Mayor Dan Rivera, Lawrence
Mayor Yvonne M. Spicer, Framingham
Town Manager Steve Bartha, Danvers
Marc Draisen, Executive Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council

Thank you for listening to BARI's 2020 Conference podcast! We'll see you next year for the 2021 Conference.

BARI is an interuniversity research partnership of Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.