Directory

Dr. Adams-Santos is a qualitative researcher who centers questions of sexuality, intimacy, and belonging in the digital era; in particular, how individuals navigate the racial, gender, and sexual politics of digital and urban landscapes in their search for intimacy and community.

Dr. Mara Cecilia Ostfeld is the research director at the Center for Racial Justice, and an associate research scientist in the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. In addition, Mara is a faculty lead at the Detroit Metro Area…

As a racial justice lawyer, historian, organizer, and writer, Dr. Amanda Alexander has dedicated her career to building the power of community-based movements for social change. She is the founder and former Executive Director of the Detroit Justice…

Charlene A. Carruthers (she/her) is a writer, filmmaker, community organizer, and BlackStudies PhD candidate at Northwestern University. A practitioner of telling morecomplete stories, her work interrogates Black governance, Black and…

Kristina Fullerton Rico is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Racial Justice at the Ford School. Her research examines the social and emotional impacts of U.S. immigration policies that lead unauthorized immigrants and their families to endure…

Mo Torres (MPP ‘15) is a Michigan Society of Fellows (MSF) postdoctoral scholar and assistant professor at the Ford School and in Sociology (LSA) for a three-year term. His research and teaching interests are in political economy, urban politics, and…

Bianca D.M. Wilson, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Welfare at the Luskin School of Public Affairs and an affiliate faculty member of the California Center for Population Research at UCLA. Her research explores the…

Katrina (they/she) brings experience in community organizing and a dedication to developing accessible and inclusive communication strategies to the Ford School.

Angela (she/her) joined the Ford School in April 2022. She handles event planning, scheduling, and the center's finances.