PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to promote research-based advocacy strategies to address structural inequality and disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty…Read More
