Angela Hurlock, Chief Executive Officer of Claretian Associates, is joining the Voorhees Center as our second Janet L. Smith Practitioner in Residence!
As part of the Voorhees Center's work as an EDA University Center, we've created a series of reports and tools on the Green Economy. Get a quick overview of this work with our easy-to-read one-page briefs below.
Dr. Joshua Drucker was interviewed by the Planetary Radio Podcast on the NASA Economic Impact Analysis authored and produced by the Voorhees Center. Drucker discussed the purpose of the report, the economic model, challenges, and findings.
From January 29 – April 23, our community partners at the Illinois Holocaust Museum will host their newest special exhibition, The Negro Motorist Green Book. The exhibition reveals how the handbook provided African…
The Voorhees Center's newest report, The Landscape of Green Infrastructure in Chicago, explores this emerging industry, which posits a sustainable and resilient alternative to traditional or "grey" infrastructure.
To identify where digital skills education was missing in the green economy and assess access to this education, we created the Digital Skills in the Green Economy in the Chicago Region report.
Kevin Jackson, Executive Director of the Chicago Rehab Network (CRN), is joining the Voorhees Center as our first Janet L. Smith Practitioner in Residence!
The Voorhees Center’s newest report, Green Economy Occupations in the Chicago Region, is an overview of occupations in the Green Economy that synthesizes ONET occupational data to provide employment, Job Zone, technology, certification,…
