Contributors
Race-Talk Editorial Staff
Executive Editor
Jamaal R. Bell, Media Relations Manager
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Copyeditor
Philip Kim, Assistant Editor
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Webmaster
Matt Wolstoncroft
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Culture Editor
Adebe DeRango-Adem, Research Writer
I Wonder as I Wander
Intern
Catrina Ann Otonogo
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Race-Talk Contributors:
Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D., Deputy Director
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Angela Stanley, Research Associate
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Avis Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D., Political Scientist
Institute for W omen’s Policy Research
Bill Quigley, Legal Director
Center for Constitutional Rights
Boyce Watkins, Ph.D., Author
Your Black World Coalition
Brittney C. Cooper, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies
University of Alabama
Britney Whaley, Graduate Student
George Mason University
Charisma Acey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning
The Ohio State University
Cliff Albright, Writer and Political Consultant
Truth Speaks Consulting
Cliff Notes from the South
Dave Zirin, Journalist
Edge of Sports
Duchess Harris, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Studies
Macalester University
Duchess Harris.com
Frederick Meade
Freelance Journalist
George Davis, Author
Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University
Until We Got Here
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., Associate Professor of African American history
The Ohio State University
Jamal Dajani
Journalist
Mosaic Intelligence Report
Cheryl Gittens-Jones
Author
Being Black: being human a collection of verse for performance
Blanca E. Vega, Doctoral Candidate
Teachers College, Columbia University
Jared Gardner, Ph.D., Associate Professor
The Ohio State University
Jessie Daniels, Ph.D., Hunter College
Racism Review
Jordan Flaherty, Editor
Left Turn Magazine
Kathleen Wells, J.D., Political Correspondent
Race-Talk
Kira Hudson Banks, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology
Illinois Wesleyan University
Mark Trahant, Journalist
Kaiser Media Fellow
Trahant Report
Mia Charlene White, Ph.D. candidate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Harris, Graduate Research Assistant
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Nisha Agarwal, Director of the Health Justice Program
New York Lawyers for Public Interest
Health Justice NYC
Nezua, Activist Blogger
Unapologetic Mexican
Richard Albert, Assistant Professor
Boston College Law School
Rajeev Ravisankar, Research Assistant
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Charlton Mcllwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication
New York University
Sam Fulwood III, Senior Fellow
Center for American Progress
SD Adkins
Freelance Writer and Blogger
Tim Giago, Journalist
Native Sun Weekly
Wendy Smooth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Women’s Studies
The Ohio State University
Yalidy Matos, Ph.D. candidate
The Ohio State University
Valerie Taliman, President & Journalist
Three Sisters Media
Taylor Harris, MA student and Journalist
John Hopkins University
Angela Dion, Writer
Let’s Talk About Race
Deepa Iyer, Executive Director
South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)
G. Derek Musgrove, Assistant Professor
University of District Columbia
Deborah Plummer, consultant and founder
D.L. Plummer & Associates
Eduardo Barraza, journalist
Barriozona
Faye Anderson, Citizen Journalist
Anderson@Large
Gyasi Ross, Attorney
Native Speaks LLC
john a. powell, Executive Director
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Jo Nubian, Graduate Student
Texas Southern University
Kamara Jones, Journalist and MA student
The Ohio State University
Llanor Alleyne, freelance writer
www.llanoralleyne.com
Michelle Alexander, Author
The New Jim Crow
Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D.
University of Illinois
Between the Line | Psychology Today
Mike Barber, Canadian independent filmmaker
A Past, Denied
Nyron N. Crawford, Ph.D. candidate
The Ohio State University
Urban Dissidence
Robert J. Strupp, Director of Research and Policy
Community Law Center
SP Udayakumar, Social Activist
South Asian Community Center for Education and Research


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