STAFF BOARD SSAB JOBS ANNUAL REPORTS
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 change the systems that disadvantage low income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and antipoverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty.
Our advocacy work focuses primarily on housing and education policy, but also involves land use, and the interconnections between housing policy and education, health, and transportation. These policy areas too often reflect inequities driven by structural segregation. PRRAC is unique in its focus on policies that address structural segregation directly. While we fully support place-based policies to redress the history of segregation and disinvestment, we believe that we cannot meaningfully address racial inequity and oppression without also changing the systems and structures that reinforce racial segregation – and supporting policies that facilitate racial and economic integration. In racially isolated, low income communities, we strongly support non-profit ownership and community control of housing and land resources to provide important protections against economic exploitation, wealth extraction, and displacement. Working with communities who are most impacted by structural segregation, we can contribute to efforts to expand opportunities and reduce poverty.
We also believe in strong coalition and partnership models, and our work is informed by an extensive national network of researchers, organizers, attorneys, educators, and public health and housing professionals. PRRAC is a founding member of Mobility Works, a national technical assistance collaborative that supports public housing agencies and other groups seeking to build housing mobility programs. PRRAC is also a founding member of the National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD), and helps to staff the coalition’s organizing, advocacy, and outreach.
Staff
Remembering Chester Hartman 1936-2023
Read his obituary, here: A Mensch with a Mission
Board of Directors
Previous Members of the Board of Directors
Social Science Advisory Board (SSAB)
PRRAC’s Social Science Advisory Board is a group of leading scholars who are committed to PRRAC’s vision of an inclusive society, and who believe that civil rights and poverty law advocacy need to be informed by research. Our Social Science Advisory Board members provide us with important insights into the work we do to affect federal, state and local housing, educational, and environmental policies.
Members of PRRAC’s Social Science Advisory Board (SSAB)
Jobs
- Law and Policy Intern for Summer 2026. See details here.
Reports
- 2022-2023 Annual Report
- 2020 – 2021 Annual Report
- 2017-2018 Annual Report
- 2015-2016 Annual Report
- 2014-2015 Annual Report
- 2013-2014 Annual Report
- 2011-2012 Annual Report
- 2010-2011 Annual Report
- 2009 Annual Report
- 2008 Annual Report
- 2007 Annual Report
- 2006 Annual Report
- 2002 Annual Report
- 2000 Annual Report
- 1998 Annual Report
- 1997 Annual Report
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