Andrew Grant-Thomas

Andrew Grant-Thomas is Deputy Director of the Kirwan Institute. He directs the Institute’s internal operations and oversees much of its US-based and global justice programming. His substantive interests include structural racism/racialization and systems thinking; poverty; implicit bias and racial communications; race and popular culture; and multiracial alliance-building.

Andrew is Editor-in-Chief of the Institute’s journal, Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, and edited Twenty-first Century Color Lines: Multiracial Change in Contemporary America (Temple University Press). He provides regular commentary on WOSU Radio and contributes to blogs that include Race-Talk, the Huffington Post, Racewire, and Imagine2050. He sits on the boards of a number of nonprofit organizations and social justice initiatives. Andrew came to the Kirwan Institute in February of 2006 from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. He earned his B.A. in Literature from Yale University, his M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.