Eric Stiens
Research Associate
Eric Stiens returns to the Kirwan Institute from St. Louis. He worked for the Kirwan Institute from its opening in 2003 until 2005 and prior to that, at the Institute on Race and Poverty in Minneapolis. He has a Master's degree in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis where he focused on community development. For the past two years, he has lived and worked at a community center in inner-city St. Louis as a program and development coordinator and has also taught science to at-risk high school students in an experiential-based learning program at the St. Louis Science Center. He was the lead researcher on the article Dreaming of a Self Beyond Whiteness and Isolation, and a co-author with others at the Kirwan Institute on a book chapter on the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina, Towards a Transformative View of Race: The Crisis and Opportunity of Katrina. He is particularly excited to be working on projects surrounded the systems thinking initiative at the Kirwan Institute, as well as ongoing research and organizing around ongoing Kirwan projects. His research interests include systems science and racial disparities, white privilege, program design/evaluation, research design.
