Meet the 2020 Emerging City Champions
Twenty young civic innovators have been selected as the next group of 8 80 Cities’ Emerging City Champions to implement projects that show great promise for strengthening their cities. The program is funded through Knight Foundation and selects Champions who propose bold ideas for enhancing active mobility, equitable public space, and civic engagement and resilience in the places where they live. This year, many of the selected projects emphasize the urgency of improving cities in response to the impacts of COVID-19 and the national protests that have underscored deep systemic inequities.