About Us
Staff and Fellows
Staff and Fellows
Staff and Fellows
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Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Chandra Bhatnagar • Devon Carbado • Marianne L. Engelman-Lado • Janine Jackson • Beverly Guy-Sheftall • Lydia Mallett • Alvin Starks • Tim Wise
Mission
Mission
Mission
Founded in 1996 to promote women’s rights in the context of struggles for racial justice, AAPF works to advance racial justice, gender equality, and human rights, both in the United States and internationally. AAPF is an innovative think tank that connects academics, activists, and policy-makers in dismantling structural inequality and...
Co-Founders
Co-Founders
Co-Founders
Kimberlé Crenshaw Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. Her articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, National Black Law Journal, Stanford Law Review and Southern...
Focus
Focus
Focus
Currently, AAPF is focusing its efforts in three distinct areas: Affirmative Action, Intersectionality, and Structural Racism. Many of the projects that we are working on in these areas involve challenging the accepted “color-blindness” theory and shedding light on issues that, having originated with historical trends of racial bias and discrimination, continue to pose a...
Founded in 1996 to promote women’s rights in the context of struggles for racial justice, the African American Policy Forum works to advance racial justice, gender equality and human rights, both in the United States and internationally. AAPF is an innovative think tank that connects academics, activists and policy-makers in dismantling structural inequality and engages new ideas and perspectives to transform public discourse and policy. The work of AAPF promotes frameworks and strategies that address the bases of discrimination as they relate to the intersections of race, gender and class.
Board of Directors
Chandra Bhatnagar • Devon Carbado • Marianne L. Engelman-Lado • Janine Jackson • Beverly Guy-Sheftall • Lydia Mallett • Alvin Starks • Tim Wise...
Mission
Founded in 1996 to promote women’s rights in the context of struggles for racial justice, AAPF works to advance racial...
Luke Harris
Dr. Luke Charles Harris is the former Chair of the Department of Political Science at Vassar College, where he teaches...