As one of the fastest growing cities and metropolitan areas in the country, Seattle is facing new but ever-changing opportunities and challenges. Part of the city’s growth includes a robust creative economy, but with growth has also come severe disparities. To gauge these disparities, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture engaged a team from the Evans Student Consulting Lab to conduct mixed-method research on Seattle’s creative economy through a race and equity lens. In order to fulfill this request we proposed the following research questions to guide our project:
- What does the creative economy currently look like in Seattle?
- What can quantitative and qualitative data illuminate about how and why disparities manifest racially, regionally, and occupationally?
- How can ARTS recommend and/or implement organizational and city-wide policies that help mitigate disparities and create a more equitable creative economy?
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