Partnerships with the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office The Sustainable Development Goals in L.A. Project is a Young Initiative partnership with the L.A. Mayor’s Office. We create student task forces that work under city leadership with faculty guidance to imagine for Los Angeles ways in which global norms can inform local policy. The task forces are empowered to use the SDGs as a tool to help envision fresh policy approaches to seemingly intractable local problems. Our task forces typically work with the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs. This year, we expanded our partnership across multiple city departments, including the Mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity and the Mayor’s Chief Equity Office. Our partnership with these arms of the L.A. city government provides students with the opportunity to have a significant policy impact on issues related to the SDGs.
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