It was an energizing night on November 9, 2026, where government leaders, academics and students gathered in Philadelphia for “Accountability Across Administrations: A Conversation with Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols and Former Mayor GT Bynum”.
Co-hosted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Public Service and Policy Initiative (PSPI), the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy and Results for America (RFA), the event brought three mayors across political spectrums together to discuss how using data and evidence can create common ground, expand opportunity for residents and chelp Tulsa confront the legacy of the 1921 race massacre.
The Tulsa story is featured in our new book, Do What Works.
Speakers included:
- Mayor Monroe Nichols
(D – Tulsa) - Former Mayor G.T. Bynum
(R – Tulsa) - Former Mayor Michael Nutter
(D – Philadelphia) - Ellen Hur
Senior Vice President and Chief Products & Innovation Officer at Results for America - Daniel Hopkins
Julie and Martin Franklin Presidential Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania - Frederick Steiner
Dean of the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania