Urban Market Analytics (UMA), a division of the Power Broker Media Group, is a boutique consultancy whose team is passionately committed to strategies that measurably and meaningful move the needle of progress toward economic equity and inclusion.
The firm was born from CEO Gypsy Gallardo’s roots in the field of community economic development and its intersections with workforce, business, housing and commercial development, as well as from her decades of experience as an equity policy advocacy leader.
UMA’s has worked with award-winning clients to develop, resource and analyze the impact of national, state, regional, city and community scale initiatives.
Today, UMA is working with innovators on investments and initiatives to:
- Grow the inventory of ethically sourced AI training data that accurately reflects Black people, cultures, capacities and interconnections to the global context
- Build a more compelling case for community land trust affordable housing development
- Evolve equity advocacy frameworks to center on money and related performance metrics
- Digitally connect the global Black diaspora