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The 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's
primary mission is to help connect advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty
issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues. PRRAC
sponsors social science research, provides technical assistance, and convenes advocates and
researchers around particular race and poverty issues. PRRAC also supports public education
efforts, including the bimonthly newsletter/journal Poverty & Race, and the award-winning
civil rights history curriculum guide, Putting the Movement Back Into
Civil Rights Teaching (co-published with Teaching
for Change). At 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. PRRAC's work is informed by an
extensive national network of researchers, organizers, attorneys, educators, and public health and
housing professionals.
PRRAC has received financial support from hundreds of individual donors, as
well as from the Rockefeller, Ford, W. K, Kellogg, 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 Open Society Institute, 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.
President/Executive Director: Philip Tegeler
(ptegeler@prrac.org)
Director of Research: Chester Hartman
(chartman@prrac.org)
Policy Associate: Kami Kruckenberg (kkruckenberg@prrac.org)
Government Relations and Development Associate: Lauren Hill (lhill@prrac.org)
Law & Policy Fellow: Hanna Chouest (hchouest@prrac.org)
Other Staff
(info@prrac.org)
CHAIR
John Charles Boger, Dean of the Univ. of North Carolina Law
School, Chapel Hill, NC
VICE-CHAIR
José Padilla, Executive Director, California Rural
Legal Assistance, San Francisco, CA
TREASURER
Sheila Crowley, National Low Income Housing
Coalition, Washington, DC
SECRETARY
john powell, Professor of Law and
Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity at Moritz
College of Law, The Ohio State University.
Janis Bowdler, National Council of La Raza
John Brittain, University of the District of Columbia School of Law
Maria Blanco, Warren Institute at UC Berkeley School of Law
Victor Bolden, Corporation Counsel, City of New Haven, CT
Sheryll Cashin, Professor, Georgetown Law School
Craig Flournoy, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Olati Johnson, Associate Professor, Columbia Law School, New York, NY
Elizabeth Julian, Inclusive Communities Project, Dallas, TX
Spence Limbocker is former President of the Neighborhood Funders Group in Washington, D.C.
S.M. Miller, Senior Fellow, Commonwealth Institute and Research Professor of
Sociology at Boston College
Demetria McCain Director of Advocacy and Education, Inclusive Communities Project, Dallas, TX
Don Nakanishi, Director of the Asian American Studies Center and Professor
in the Graduate School of Education, UCLA
Dennis Parker, Director of Racial Justice Programs, ACLU
Anthony Sarmiento, National Senior Citizens Education and Research Center,
Silver Spring, MD
Ted Shaw, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Catherine Tactaquin, National Director, National
Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Oakland, CA
William L. Taylor, civil rights attorney and counsel
to Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC
Camille Wood, National Legal Aid & Defender Association, Washington, DC
Social Science Advisory Board
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Harvard School of Public Health
Frank Bonilla, Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Camille Charles, Univ. Pennsylvania Department of Sociology
John Goering, Baruch College School of Public Affairs
Heidi Hartmann, Inst. for Women's Policy Research
Willian Kornblum, CUNY Center for Social Research
Harriette McAdoo, Michigan State School of Human Ecology
Fernando Mendoza, Stanford Univ. Department of Pediatrics
Roslyn Mikelson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Paul Ong, UCLA Dept. of City & Reg. Planning
Gary Orfield, The Civil Rights Project (UCLA)
Gary Sandefur, Dean of Univ. Wisconsin College of Letters & Science
Gregory D. Squires, George Washington Univ. Department of Sociology
Margery Austin Turner, The Urban Institute
Margaret Weir, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Former PRRAC Board of Directors
Note: The first-listed institutional identification is that at the time
of the person's PRRAC appointment.
Rev. Darrell Armstrong, Shiloh Baptist Church, Trenton, NJ
Deepak Bhargava: Center for Community Change, Washington, DC
Angela Glover Blackwell: Urban Strategies Council; PolicyLink, Oakland
Victor Bolden: City of New Haven
Gordon Bonnyman: Legal Services of Middle Tennessee; Tennessee Justice Center
Nancy Duff Campbell: National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC
David Cohen: The Advocacy Institute, Washington, DC
Gary Delgado: Applied Research Center, Oakland
Shari Dunn-Buron: Civil Division, National Legal Aid & Defender Association, Washington, DC
Ronald Ellis: NAACP Legal Defense Fund; U.S. District Court, Southern District
of New York
William Fletcher, Jr.: AFL-CIO Department of Education; TransAfrica Forum, Washington, DC
Tonya Gonnella Frichner: American Indian Law Alliance, New York, NY
James Gibson: Center for the Study of Social Policy, Washington, DC
Robert Greenstein: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC
Tessie Guillermo: Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum, San Francisco
Kati Haycock: Education Trust, Washington, DC
Thomas Henderson, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Wade Henderson: NAACP; Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Helen Hershkoff: American Civil Liberties Union; New York University School of Law
Phyllis Holmen: Georgia Legal Services
Mary Ellen Hombs: Legal Services Homelessness Task Force; Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance
Chung-Wha Hong: National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), Flushing, New York
Alan Houseman: Center for Law and Social Policy, Washington, DC
Maria Jimenez: Immigration Law Enforcement Monitoring Project
Judith Johnson: DeWitt Wallace-Readers Digest Fund, NYC
Kenneth Kimerling: Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund; Asian American Legal Defense
and Educational Fund
Robert Lehrer: Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago; Lehrer and Redleaf
Susana Navarro: University of Texas
Jane Perkins: National Health Law Program, Chapel Hill
Florence Roisman, Indiana University School of Law
Susan Sechler: Aspen Institute, Washington, DC
Milagros Silva: Lead Organizer, ACORN's WEP Worker's Organizing Committee, Brooklyn, NY
Esmeralda Simmons: Medger Evers Center for Law & Social Justice, Brooklyn, NY
William R. Tamayo: Asian Law Caucus; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Jim Weill: Children's Defense Fund; Food Research and Action Center, Washington, DC
Judith Winston: American University School of Law; U.S. Department of Education
Former Social Science Advisory Board
Richard Berk, UCLA Department of Sociology
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linda Darling-Hammond, Columbia University Teachers College, Stanford University
Cynthia Duncan, Univ. New Hampshire Department of Sociology
Ronald Mincy, The Urban Institute; The Ford Foundation
Gail Thomas, Texas A&M University
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