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Whats New?

  • Community Development Collaborative project discussed in The Columbus Dispatch
  • Community Development Collaborative
  • Report: Galveston After Ike

Recent Publications

  • Diversity Strategies for Successful Schools - Recommendations
  • Kirwan E-Newsletter eUpdate July/August 2011
  • Annie E. Casey Foundation National Dialogue to Address the Disparate Impact of Foreclosure on Communities of Color -

In The Media

  • Story of blacks in U.S. is bathed in sugar and vinegar
  • WOSU Ohio Sentencing Reform – July 27, 2011 - A Little Common Sense Where a Lot Is Needed
  • Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:00a.m., WOSU radio’s All Sides with Ann Fisher

Of Note

  • Hiphop Literacies Conference Issues Call for Papers
  • Race Exhibit to Visit COSI Columbus

Leadership & Staff

  • Charisma Acey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
  • Mikyung Baek, Ph.D., Research & Technical Associate
  • Jamaal Bell, Media Relations Manager
  • Barbara Carter, Assistant to the Director/Office Manager
  • Sharon L. Davies, Executive Director
  • Elsadig Elsheikh, Senior Research Associate
  • Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director
  • Brookes Hammock,  Research Associate
  • Amy Holden, Director of Development
  • Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
  • Matthew Martin, GIS/Planning Specialist
  • Tara McCoy, Fiscal & Human Resources Manager
  • Stephen Menendian, J.D., Senior Legal Associate
  • Jillian Olinger, Research Associate
  • Jason Reece,  Senior Researcher
  • Christy Rogers, Senior Researcher
  • Tom Rudd, Senior Researcher
  • Leslie Birdwell Shortlidge, Managing Editor
  • Wendy Smooth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Sarah Solarik, Administrative and Development Assistant
  • Cheryl Staats, Research Associate
  • Angela Stanley, Research Associate
  • Eric Stiens, Research Associate
  • S. P. Udayakumar, Research Fellow
  • Matthew Wolstoncroft, Web Communications Specialist

Graduate Research Associates 

  • Wendy Ake, Graduate Research Associate
  • Yumi Choi, Graduate Research Associate
  • Elizabeth Colombo, Graduate Research Associate
  • Heleh Dolati, Graduate Research Associate
  • So Young Lee, Graduate Research Associate
  • Melissa Lindsjo, Graduate Research Associate
  • Charles Patton, Graduate Research Associate
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