Research & Engagement

At the Center for Racial Justice, we organize and sponsor various opportunities to advance antiracism and racial justice through research, policy work, and community engagement in the Ford School and wider U-M community. We invite you to explore our current opportunities and to connect with us to learn more.

My vision for the Center for Racial Justice is to expand the body of scholarship exploring the historical, current, and potential relationship between public policy and racial equity. We seek to approach this work with an eye towards evidence-based solutions. Equally important, we seek to cultivate and support early-career scholars that share a desire to advance this area of research.

Mara Ostfeld, research director at the Center of Racial Justice

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Our Research

Research Publications

We seek to explore, analyze, and understand how public policies have undermined or advanced the goal of racial equity, illuminating evidence-based solutions and supporting the changemakers who advocate for sound, just, and fair public policies day in and day out.
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Student projects

Racial Justice Student Initiative Fund

The Racial Justice Student Initiative Fund will accept applications for the 2022-2023 academic year beginning in Fall 2022. The Racial Justice Student Initiative Fund provides financial and logistical support for student-led racial justice initiatives that advance a more critical understanding of the social and political conditions that impact Black, Native and Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American and Pacific Islander peoples. We support a range of advocacy, policy engagement, and research projects. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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Have any questions?

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Dominique Adams-Santos

Associate Director, Center for Racial Justice; Associate Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer; Special Assistant to the Associate Dean, Ford School; Anti-Racism Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Institutional Diversity

Office 5318, Weill Hall
734-647-1693
adamssan@umich.edu
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