Boston Appoints First Chief of Equity to Lead Six-Department Cabinet

Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip6465 · Meeting of July 22, 2026

Boston names its first Chief of Equity as Mayor Walsh launches a long-term Racial Equity Fund. Dr. Carolyn Crockett, a Dorchester native and former city economic research director, was introduced in a Boston City TV interview as the first person to hold the Chief of Equity title, overseeing a cabinet of six offices including the Office for Immigrant Advancement and the Office of Resilience and Racial Equity.

Dr. Crockett cited Federal Reserve Bank of Boston data showing median wealth of $247,000 for white Boston families versus $8 for Black families as the core empirical case for the new office. The Boston Racial Equity Fund, which her office will help guide, is designed to accept private donations and operate outside the city's annual budget cycle with what Mayor Walsh described as a 50-year impact horizon — a deliberate contrast with crisis-driven predecessors such as the One Boston Fund and the Boston Resiliency Fund, both of which were wound down after their originating emergencies passed.

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Source: the Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip6465 meeting of July 22, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.