Center for Racial Justice
Advancing racial equity and cultivating a diverse community of changemakers
Our mission
At the Center for Racial Justice, we seek to explore, analyze, and understand how public policies have undermined or advanced the goal of racial equity, illuminating evidence-based solutions and supporting the changemakers who advocate for sound, just, and fair public policies day in and day out.
The Center for Racial Justice is a space for all who seek to make positive and lasting change in our shared society toward just futures for all.
Programs & Initiatives
Our focus
Racial Foundations of Public Policy series
Masterclass in Activism
Reading Circles
Racial Justice Student Initiative Fund
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At the Center for Racial Justice, we believe in the power of public policy to help address the societal challenges that we all face.
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, director of the Center for Racial Justice
Watkins-Hayes is also the Interim Dean of the Ford School, Jean E. Fairfaix Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, and professor of sociology.
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Investing in the future
Goldman Sachs Foundation invests in Ford School’s Center for Racial Justice
As part of its One Million Black Women (OMBW) initiative, Goldman Sachs becomes the inaugural funder of the Ford School’s Center for Racial Justice...
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What we want to do is put race to bed. But the problem is we can't do that until we actually face it. Facing it I don't believe will be complete in my lifetime because we've been facing race since before the United States was the United States. So, to deal with these issues, we have to deal with the fact of how central race was in the formation of our nation and the formation of policies we've enacted. Then, with that honesty, we can go forward in the present and actually make policies that can fulfill the promises of the United States as a representative democracy."
Dr. Trevon Logan
in conversation with Dr. Celeste Watkins-Hayes for the Racial Foundations in Public Policy speaker series. Logan is the Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University.
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