IRRPP Scholar Spotlights

Each month during the academic year, we choose an IRRPP scholar and feature the work they are doing on race/ethnicity and public policy in our monthly Scholar Spotlights.

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• March, 2018: Kevin Lamarr James
  From Grassroots Campaigns to World Scholars: Educating Leaders for Social Change
• February, 2018: Akemi Nishida
  Without Care: Critical Disability and Race Analyses of Medicaid Pushout
• January, 2018: Stacey Sutton
  Spatial Interdependence and the Logic of Shop Succession
• October, 2017: Laurie Schaffner
  Racial Hypersexualization: Chicago Youth Involved in the Street Sex Trade
• September, 2017: Yamile Molina
  Developing a Health Civic Engagement Workshop for Latinas
• April, 2017: Shannon Zenk
  LINK Up Illinois: Access to Fresh Produce in Black & Latino Communities
• March, 2017: Gregory Larnell
  Remedial Math Courses as Gatekeepers: "Cooling-Out" Academic Aspirations
• February, 2017: Cedric Johnson
  Making the Good Times Roll: New Orleans Tourism-Entertainment Complex
• January, 2017: Mansha Mirza
  Black and Latino Parents Manage Their Children's Special Healthcare Needs
• November, 2016: Ronak Kapadia
  Art and Activism: Race, Security, and Warfare in the Afterlife of the PATRIOT Act
• October, 2016: Otima Doyle
  Informing Policy Decisions Regarding African American Fathers
• September, 2016: Rohan D. Jeremiah
  Chicago's Refugee Men's Health Initiative
• April, 2016: Elizabeth Todd-Breland
  Black Politics and Education Reform in Post-Civil Rights Chicago
• March, 2016: Anna Guevarra
  Community Building: Filipinos and the Illinois Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights
• February, 2016: Dima Mazen Qato
  Improving Medication Use among Arab American Women and Children
• January, 2016: Nadine Naber
  Bread, Dignity, and Gender Justice: Women and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011
• November, 2015: Maria Krysan
  Welcome Home: Addressing the Housing Crisis in the Austin Community
• October, 2015: Aerika Brittian
  Fostering Positive Identity Development in Urban Youth Organizations
• September, 2015: Claire Decoteau
  The "Western Disease": Autism in the Somali Refugee Population
• April, 2015: Federico R. Waitoller
  Chicago Charter Schools: Access & Inclusion of Latin@ & Black Students
  with Disabilities
• March, 2015: Miriam O. Ezenwa
  Mayday for Pain: The Fight for Relief for African Americans with
  Sickle Cell Disease
• February, 2015: Angela Odoms-Young
  Improving Healthy Food Options in Muslim-Run Stores in Black Communities
  
• January, 2015: Kelly LeRoux
  Racial Diversity and Enhancing Performance in Charitable Organizations
  
• November, 2014: Faith Fletcher
  Improving Health Services for Disadvantaged Women Living with HIV/AIDS
• October, 2014: Henrika McCoy
  Improving Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders
• September, 2014: Andy Clarno
  Policing in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg
• April, 2014: Ralph Cintron
  Puerto Ricans in Chicagoland
• March, 2014: Marisha Humphries and Cassandra McKay-Jackson
  Training School Staff in Social-Emotional Learning
• February, 2014: Paul Schewe and Phoenix Matthews
  Hate Crimes Against LGBT Peoples in Chicago
• January, 2014: Pauline Lipman:
  Chicago School Reform: Destabilization, Disinvestment & Disenfranchisement
  
• November, 2013: Xóchitl Bada:
  The Evolution of Mexican Organizations
• October, 2013: Alan Dettlaff:
  Parental Criminal Convictions Impact Involvement with Child Public Services