PRRAC: Connecting Research to AdvocacyPoverty & Race Research Action CouncilPRRAC_ff95efda-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9aThe Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights policy organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups in 1989-90.PRRAC StaffPhilip TegelerPresident/Executive Director -- Philip Tegeler was appointed as PRRAC's Executive Director beginning in January of 2004. Mr. Tegeler has worked as a civil rights lawyer for over 25 years. Before coming to PRRAC, he was an attorney with the Connecticut ACLU, where he also served as Legal Director from 1997-2003. At the ACLU, Mr. Tegeler litigated cases in federal and state courts involving fair housing, school desegregation, land use law, voting rights, first amendment law, gay rights, prison conditions, criminal justice, and other institutional reform litigation. He has also worked as Legal Projects Director at the Metropolitan Action Institute in New York City (a public interest urban planning organization), and taught in the University of Connecticut School of Law clinical program. Mr. Tegeler's publications include "The 'Compelling Government Interest' in School Diversity: Rebuilding the Case for an Affirmative Government Role," in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (forthcoming 2014); "The Future of Race Conscious Goals in National Housing Policy," in Public Housing Transformation: Confronting the Legacy of Segregation (The Urban Institute Press, 2009); "Connecting Families to Opportunity: The Next Generation of Housing Mobility Policy," in Brian Smedley and Alan Jenkins, eds., All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time, (The New Press, 2007); "The Persistence of Segregation in Government Housing Programs," in Xavier de Souza Briggs, ed., The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America (Brookings Institution Press 2005); "Transforming Section 8: Using Federal Housing Subsidies to Promote Individual Housing Choice and Desegregation," 30 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 451 (1995) (co-author with Michael Hanley and Judith Liben); "Housing Segregation and Local Discretion," 3 Journal of Law and Policy 209 (1994), and Inclusionary Zoning Moves Downtown (coeditor) (Planners Press, 1985). Additional articles have appeared in Clearinghouse Review, Land Use Law, Journal of Legal Education, Journal of Affordable Housing Law, Shelterforce, Poverty & Race, and Planning Magazine. Mr. Tegeler was co-founder and the first board president of the Connecticut Fair Housing Center, served as a member of the Connecticut Housing Coalition Board for nine years, and is currently on the board ofthe Open Communities Alliance. He was an appointed member of the Connecticut Blue Ribbon Commission on Affordable Housing in 1999-2000. He is also an active member of the Housing Justice Network and is on the board of Building One America. Mr. Tegeler has also served as an adjunct professor at the UConn Law School and at Columbia Law School, and his courses have included "Federal Courts," "Advanced Civil Procedure: Class Actions," and "Housing and Civil Rights." Mr. Tegeler is a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia Law School. (Member of the Connecticut and District of Columbia Bar)Megan HaberlePolicy Counsel -- Megan Haberle is a Policy Counsel at PRRAC, specializing in housing, transit, and environmental justice policy. Ms. Haberle worked most recently at The Opportunity Agenda in New York. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, and Swarthmore College. (Member of the New York State Bar.) Ms. Haberle has co-authored a number of PRRAC reports, including Accessing Opportunity: Recommendations for Marketing and Tenant Selection in LIHTC and Other Housing Programs (December 2012), and Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing at HUD: A First Term Report Card (January 2013), and she recently published an article on the new HUD discriminatory impact rule, titled "Introducing HUD's Implementation of the Fair Housing Act's Discriminatory Effects Standard" (Clearinghouse Review, fall 2013)Gina ChirichignoOutreach Coodinator, NCSD; Co-Director, One Nation Indivisible -- Gina Chirichigno, based in Northampton, Massachusetts, specializes in education policy and organizing. She serves as Outreach Coordinator for the National Coalition on School Diversity, and is also Co-Director of One Nation Indivisible, a documentation and organizing project co-sponsored by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute at Harvard Law School. Ms. Chirichigno previously worked at education and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute. She is a graduate of Howard University Law School (Member of Massachusetts Bar, inactive status).Michael HiltonPolicy Analyst -- Michael Hilton is a 2012 Graduate of Columbia Law School, and is focusing on PRRAC's education policy work. Mr. Hilton is the author of Poverty, Literacy, and Brain Development: Toward a New, Place-Based Educational Intervention, 17 Rich J.L. & Pub. Int. 623 (2014).LaKeeshia FoxLaw and Policy Associate -- LaKeeshia Fox comes to PRRAC from the HUD Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, where she worked on the team that developed HUD's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule. Ms. Fox also worked at HUD and the Department of Justice as a Presidential Management Fellow. She is a graduate of North Carolina Central University School of Law.Tyler BarbarinAdministrative and Development Assistant -- Tyler Barbarin is a 2014 graduate of the University of Richmond. Prior to coming to PRRAC, Tyler worked with homeless youth as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer.Chester HartmanDirector of Research (Retired) -- Chester Hartman, an urban planner and author, served as Director of Research of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council in Washington, DC until Dec, 2015. Prior to taking his present position, he was the founding Executive Director of PRRAC. Before that, he was a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Harvard and served on the faculty there as well as at Yale, the University of North Carolina, Cornell, the University of California-Berkeley, and Columbia University. Dr. Hartman has authored dozens of books and articles on housing and urban policy. He is also the founder and former Chair of the Planners Network, a national organization of progressive urban and rural planners and community organizers.PRRAC Board of DirectorsJohn Charles BogerCHAIR -- John Charles Boger is Dean at the Univ. of North Carolina Law School and cofounder of the UNC Center for Civil Rights. He holds both a Masters of Divinity from Yale and a law degree from UNC. From 1978-90 he was with the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, both as Director of their Poverty & Justice Project and as Director of their Capital Punishment Project. www.law.unc.eduJosé PadillaVICE-CHAIR -- José Padilla is Executive Director of California Rural Legal Assistance and where he has been for more than 25 years. He received his law degree from UC-Berkeley and his undergraduate degree from Stanford. Among his special interests bilingual and migrant education and farm worker legal services. The Mexican government presented him with the prestigious Ohtli Award for his service to Mexican citizens in the United States. www.crla.orgSpence LimbockerTREASURER -- Spence Limbocker is former President of the Neighborhood Funders Group in Washington, D.C. -- Spence Limbocker has over forty years experience working in community based organizations and with philanthropic institutions whose mission has been the support the development of effective community and economic development organizations in low and moderate income communities. Since retiring in 2008 after serving as the executive director of the Neighborhood Funders Group for twelve years, Spence has been doing consulting work with several non profit organizations.john powellSECRETARY -- john powell is Professor of Law and Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC-Berkeley. He formerly was Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School, Executive Director of Greater Miami Legal Services and on the staff of Evergreen Legal Services. His undergraduate degree is from Stanford, and his law degree is from UC-Berkeley.John BrittainJohn Brittain is a professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia. He previously served as General Counsel and Senior Deputy Director at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. As Chief Counsel, he was responsible for determining civil rights litigation strategies and public policy issues. He assisted in filing numerous amicus briefs in the Supreme Court and many other federal and state courts. Prior to his work at the Lawyer’s Committee, Brittain was a law professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford, and Dean of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston. Professor Brittain is a school desegregation specialist and was one of the lawyers who filed the landmark Sheff v. O’Neill school desegregation case in 1989. This lawsuit challenged the racial, economic, and educational segregation between Hartford and the surrounding school districts as a denial of a student’s fundamental right to an equal education under the Connecticut Constitution. In 1993, the NAACP awarded Professor Brittain the coveted William Robert Ming Advocacy Award for legal service to the NAACP without a fee. Brittain earned his B.A. and J.D degrees from Howard University and specializes in civil rights litigation theories in education, voting rights, affirmative action, affordable housing, and police misconduct.Sheryll CashinSheryll Cashin is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where she specializes in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Local Government Law, and Race and American Law. Professor Cashin’s publications include The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream (Public Affairs, 2004) and The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family (Public Affairs, 2008). Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Professor Cashin was Director of Community Development for the National Economic Council at the White House, where she managed interagency policy development processes for urban policy and community development initiatives. Professor Cashin was law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She received her BA from Vanderbilt University in 1984, a Master’s in English Law from Oxford University in J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review.Craig FlournoyCraig Flournoy is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at University of Cincinnati. For over a decade, he was a reporter for the Dallas Morning News where he won a Pulitzer Prize (among many other awards) for his investigative reporting, including "Separate and Unequal," a series on racial discrimination and segregation in HUD's low-income housing programs throughout the country. His undergraduate degree is from the University of New Orleans, and he holds a Masters from SMU, a doctorate from Louisiana State University.Rachel GodsilRachel Godsil is the Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law and a co-founder and Director of Research for the Perception Institute, a national consortium of social scientists, advocates, and educators dedicated to using the insights from the mind sciences to address the role of implicit bias and racial anxiety on culture, public policy, and institutional structures. She focuses her teaching and scholarship on issues of Race, Property, Constitutional Law, and Environmental Justice, and has authored numerous articles and book chapters as well as co-editing Awakening from the Dream: Civil Rights Under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice (2005). She is a former Associate Counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and continues to write amicus briefs to the Supreme Court including representing LDF in Wood v. Moss, Research Psychologists in Fisher v. University of Texas, and the National Parent Teacher Association in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District.Damon HewittDamon Hewitt is a Senior Advisor at the Open Society Foundations and Former Director of Education Practice at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Mr. Hewitt founded LDF's "Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline" initiative, and has also coordinated LDF's post-Hurricane Katrina litigation and advocacy efforts. A native of New Orleans, Mr. Hewitt attended Louisiana State University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.David HinojosaDavid Hinojosa is the Southwest Regional Counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), with a focus on educational civil rights impact litigation on behalf of Latinos. Among current cases, Mr. Hinojosa serves as MALDEF's lead counsel in Edgewood v. Williams, where he represents low income and English Language Learner (ELL) students and property-poor school districts. He also represents Latino parents and students in a forty-year old class action school desegregation case, Morales v. Shannon, where he continues to fight for equal educational opportunities, and in a federal court class action against Texas' programs for ELL students in US/LULAC v. Texas. Since 2008, he has represented Latino amici students and organizations defending the University of Texas at Austin's diversity admissions plan in Fisher v. Texas, where he most recently co-authored a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of several national Latino civil rights organizations. In addition, Mr. Hinojosa represents DREAM students who successfully defended against a challenge to Texas's in-state tuition law for undocumented immigrants and are now fighting to preserve access to tuition grants in IRCOT v. Texas/ULI. David earned his Bachelor's degree from New Mexico State University and his J.D from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.Camille HolmesCamille Holmes is Senior Staff at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. She previously worked with the Center for Law & Social Policy as Co-Director of its Project for the Future of Equal Justice. In 2002, she helped form the Mississippi Center for Social Justice, a collaborative racial and economic justice law firm that practices community problem-solving approaches. Ms. Wood has also served as Executive Director of the Southern Africa Legal Service & Legal Education Project. A graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe Colleges and the Harvard Law School, she clerked for Sixth Circuit Judge Damon Keith.Olati JohnsonOlati Johnson is an associate professor at the Columbia Law School. Until May 2004 she served as a consultant to the National Legal Department of the ACLU, where she helped develop a strategic plan for the organization on racial justice issues. From September 2001 until September 2003, she served as counsel to Senator Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee where she worked on civil rights, judicial nominations, religion and first amendment issues. Prior to that Ms. Johnson was an assistant counsel for four years at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where she worked on a range of issues including higher education affirmative action, employment discrimination, education policy, and welfare and low-wage employment policy. Ms. Johnson graduated in 1995 from Stanford Law School where she was Order of the Coif, and received her B.A. in Literature Cum Laude from Yale University in 1989.Elizabeth JulianElizabeth (Betsy) Julian is president of the Dallas-based Inclusive Communities Project. From 1990 to 1994, she worked as Deputy General Counsel for Civil Rights & Litigation, later as Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Her pre-HUD experience includes 20 years of practice of poverty and civil rights law in Texas, where she represented primarily low-income clients in cases involving housing discrimination, voting rights, municipal services discrimination and indigent health care. From 1988-90 she was executive director of Legal Services of North Texas, and helped found the Texas Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.Demetria McCainDemetria McCain is Executive Director of the Inclusive Communities Project in Dallas. Ms. McCain previously held positions at Neighborhood Legal Services in Washington, D.C. and at the National Housing Law Project.S.M. MillerSenior Fellow, Commonwealth Institute and Research Professor of Sociology at Boston College -- S.M. (Mike) Miller, an economic sociologist/activist theoretician, is director of the Project on Inequality and Poverrty at the Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, MA. and former chair of the sociology deparrtment at Boston University. He has a B.A. in economics from Brooklyn College, a M.A. in economics from Columbia, a M.A. in economics from Princeton and a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton. He has taught at NYU, Syracuse, Brooklyn College, Rutgers and in labor programs at Cornell, Michigan, Rutgers, University of Massachusetts. He was an advisor on poverty at the Ford Foundation where he initiated its Latino and Native American programs and served on the executive committee of the Field Foundation. He was co-founder and first president of the Research Committee on Poverty and Social Welfare of the International Sociological Association. He is a co-founder of United for a Fair Economy. His most recent book is Respect and Rights. His current project is on long-term economic and political directions and strategies.ReNika MooreReNika Moore is Director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Economic Justice Group. Ms. Moore's litigation work has encompassed a variety of civil rights issues, including employment, fair housing, and environmental justice. Ms. Moore was lead counsel for LDF in Cogdell v. Wet Seal, which resulted in a $7.5 million settlement that also provided for numerous compensation, promotion, and personal changes to ensure fairness and opportunity for current and future African-American retail workers. Ms. Moore also represented thousands of African-American homeowners in New Orleans in GNOFHAC v. HUD (a/k/a Road Home case), a post-Katrina fair housing challenge to the largest federal housing rebuilding program in our nation's history. Prior to joining LDF, Ms. Moore worked with the plaintiff's employment law firm Outten & Golden, LLP in New York City and served as a law clerk to federal judge and long-time civil rights advocate, Robert Carter on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Moore received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and A.B. from Harvard College.Don NakanishiDon Nakanishi recently retired as Director of the Asian American Studies Center and Professor in the Graduate School of Education, UCLA. His AB is from Yale, his PhD from Harvard. He was founder and publisher of Amerasia Journal and formerly President of the Association of Asian American Studies. His special areas of interest are educational policy issues facing Asian Americans, political participation of minority and immigrant groups, and the international dimensions of minority group experiences. www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aascDennis ParkerDennis Parker is Director of the Racial Justice Program at the American Civil Liberties Union. Prior to joining the ACLU, Dennis was Chief of the Civil Rights Bureau in the Office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer where he oversaw the enforcement of anti-discrimination laws in housing, employment, voting, public accommodations and credit. He is also a 14 year veteran of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, where he supervised the litigation of scores of school desegregation cases, as well as cases involving affirmative action in higher education.Gabriela SandovalGabriela Sandoval is Director of Research and Policy for the Oakland-based Insight Center for Community Economic Development, a national research, consulting and legal organization dedicated to building economic health and opportunity in vulnerable communities. She works primarily with the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative. Prior to joining the Insight Center she was a member of the faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught courses in race and ethnicity and urban sociology.Anthony SarmientoAnthony Sarmiento is Executive Director of Senior Service America Inc. in Silver Spring, Maryland, a national nonprofit organization that operates programs for older workers. He is currently on leave from the AFL-CIO, where he held several positions in the Education and Organizing Departments, including director of Union Summer, the AFL-CIO's summer internship program in union organizing. His prior work includes positions with local government and community based organizations in the District of Columbia. He graduated from American University with a B.A. in American Studies.Ted ShawTheodore M. Shaw is the Julius Chambers Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina and Director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights. He was formerly Associate Director-Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund in NYC and previously was Western Regional Counsel in the Fund's Los Angeles office. He formerly was on the faculty of the Univ. of Michigan Law School, where he taught civil rights, constitutional law and civil procedure, and served in the Civil Rights Division of the US Dept. of Justice. His undergraduate degree is from Wesleyan, and his law degree is from Columbia. Brian SmedleyExecutive Director, National Collaborative for Health EquityFormer PRRAC Board of DirectorsNote, The first-listed institutional identification is that at the time of the person's PRRAC appointment.Rev. Darrell ArmstrongShiloh Baptist Church, Trenton, NJDeepak BhargavaCenter for Community Change, Washington, DCAngela Glover BlackwellUrban Strategies Council; PolicyLink, OaklandMaria BlancoWarren Institute at UC Berkeley School of LawVictor BoldenCity of New HavenGordon BonnymanLegal Services of Middle Tennessee; Tennessee Justice CenterNancy Duff CampbellNational Women's Law Center, Washington, DCDavid CohenThe Advocacy Institute, Washington, DCSheila CrowleyNational Low Income Housing Coalition, Washington, DCGary DelgadoApplied Research Center, OaklandShari Dunn-BuronCivil Division, National Legal Aid & Defender Association, Washington, DCRonald EllisNAACP Legal Defense Fund; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New YorkWilliam Fletcher, Jr.AFL-CIO Department of Education; TransAfrica Forum, Washington, DCTonya Gonnella FrichnerAmerican Indian Law Alliance, New York, NYJames GibsonCenter for the Study of Social Policy, Washington, DCRobert GreensteinCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DCTessie GuillermoAsian Pacific Islander American Health Forum, San FranciscoKati HaycockEducation Trust, Washington, DCThomas HendersonLawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under LawWade HendersonNAACP; Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Helen HershkoffAmerican Civil Liberties Union; New York University School of LawPhyllis HolmenGeorgia Legal ServicesMary Ellen HombsLegal Services Homelessness Task Force; Massachusetts Housing and Shelter AllianceChung-Wha HongNational Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), Flushing, New YorkAlan HousemanCenter for Law and Social Policy, Washington, DCMaria JimenezImmigration Law Enforcement Monitoring ProjectJudith JohnsonDeWitt Wallace-Readers Digest Fund, NYCKenneth KimerlingPuerto Rican Legal Defense Fund; Asian American Legal Defense and Educational FundRobert LehrerLegal Assistance Foundation of Chicago; Lehrer and RedleafSusana NavarroUniversity of TexasJane PerkinsNational Health Law Program, Chapel HillFlorence RoismanIndiana University School of Law Susan SechlerAspen Institute, Washington, DCMilagros SilvaLead Organizer, ACORN's WEP Worker's Organizing Committee, Brooklyn, NYEsmeralda SimmonsMedger Evers Center for Law & Social Justice, Brooklyn, NYWilliam R. TamayoAsian Law Caucus; Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionWilliam L. TaylorCitizens' Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DCJim WeillChildren's Defense Fund; Food Research and Action Center, Washington, DC Judith WinstonAmerican University School of Law; U.S. Department of Education PRRAC FundersPRRAC has received financial support from hundreds of individual donors, as well as from the Rockefeller, Ford, W. K, Kellogg, Open Society, Taconic, Irvine, C.S. Mott, Annie E. Casey, Levi Strauss, Morton K and Jane Blaustein, Spencer, George Gund, Albert List, Fannie Mae, Boehm, AMJ, Tides, Caroline & Sigmund Schott, Nathan Cummings, Joyce, Abell, Akonadi, New World, Hartford Courant, and Freddie Mac Foundations, the Impact Fund, The Fund for Change, The Norflet Fund, The Fund for Greater Hartford, Working Assets Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, Funding Exchange, the Lindheim Memorial Trust, The Krieger Fund, and The Baltimore Community Foundation.RockefellerFordW. KKelloggOpen SocietyTaconicIrvineC.S. MottAnnie E. CaseyLevi StraussMorton K and Jane BlausteinSpencerGeorge GundAlbert ListFannie MaeBoehmAMJTidesCaroline & Sigmund SchottNathan CummingsJoyceAbellAkonadiNew WorldHartford CourantFreddie Mac FoundationsImpact FundThe Fund for ChangeThe Norflet FundThe Fund for Greater HartfordWorking Assets FundFund for the City of New YorkFunding ExchangeLindheim Memorial TrustThe Krieger FundThe Baltimore Community FoundationPRRAC NetworkPRRAC's work is informed by an extensive national network of researchers, organizers, attorneys, educators, and public health and housing professionals.PRRAC Social Science Advisory BoardDolores Acevedo-GarciaNortheastern UniversityRaphael BosticUniversity of Southern CaliforniaCamille CharlesUniv. Pennsylvania Department of SociologyRegina Deil-AmenUniversity of ArizonaStefanie DeLucaJohns Hopkins Department of SociologyIngrid Gould EllenNYU Wagner School of Public ServiceLance FreemanColumbia University School of Architecture and PlanningJohn GoeringBaruch College School of Public AffairsHeidi HartmannInst. for Women's Policy ResearchRucker C. JohnsonUC Berkeley Goldman School of Public PolicyJerry KangUCLA School of LawWillian KornblumCUNY Center for Social ResearchMaria KrysanUniv. of Illinois-ChicagoFernando MendozaStanford Univ. Department of PediatricsRoslyn MickelsonUniversity of North Carolina, CharlottePedro NogueraNew York UniversityPaul OngUCLA Dept. of City & Reg. PlanningGary OrfieldThe Civil Rights Project (UCLA)Patrick SharkeyNYU Department of SociologyGregory D. SquiresGeorge Washington Univ. Department of SociologyWilliam TrentUniv. of Illinois-ChampagneMargery Austin TurnerThe Urban InstituteMargaret WeirDept. of Political Science, Univ. of California, BerkeleyDavid WilliamsHarvard School of Public HealthPRRAC Former Social Science Advisory Board MembersRichard BerkUCLA Department of SociologyXavier de Souza BriggsMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyLinda Darling-HammondColumbia University Teachers College, Stanford UniversityCynthia DuncanUniv. New Hampshire Department of SociologyRonald MincyThe Urban Institute; The Ford FoundationGail ThomasTexas A&M University_ff95f296-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9aTo help connect advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues._ff95f408-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9aSocial Science ResearchSponsor social science research_ff95f52a-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9a1_ff95f66a-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9aTechnical AssistanceProvide technical assistance around particular race and poverty issues._ff95f78c-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9a2_ff95f89a-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9aConveningsConvene advocates and researchers around race and poverty issues._ff95f9da-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9a3Race Issue ResearchersRace Issue AdvocatesPoverty Issue ResearchersPoverty Issue Advocates_ff95faf2-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9aPublic EducationSupport public education efforts._ff95fc14-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9a4Newsletter/JournalPublish the bimonthly newsletter/journal Poverty & Race._ff95fd5e-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9a4.1Curriculum GuidePublish the award-winning civil rights history curriculum guide, Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching._519be25e-df06-11e5-8dbb-a11cf375ca9a4.2Teaching for Changeco-published with Teaching for ChangeProjectsPursue project-specific work in the areas of housing, education, and health._ff95fe80-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9a5At the present time, PRRAC is pursuing project-specific work in the areas of housing, education, and health, focusing on the importance of "place" and the continuing consequences of historical patterns of housing segregation and development for low income families in the areas of health, education, employment, and incarceration._ff95ffa2-de84-11e5-84f4-5c11f375ca9a2016-02-29http://www.prrac.org/about.phpOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net