R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy

R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy is a scholar whose work and activism center issues of race, place, education, and opportunity. He is an Associate Professor at New York University in the Sociology of Education program in the School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He is author of the forthcoming book A Dream Dissolved: How Opportunity Hoarding Bankrupted Education (One Signal – Simon & Shuster/Atria). He is the co-lead investigator of the Black Suburban Experience Project. His first book, Inequality in the Promised Land (Stanford University Press, 2014) tackled how inequality persisted in an “integrated” school and suburban community. His larger research interests include race and racism, gender justice, and community mobilization.