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Rashawn Ray

Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, and Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park

Rashawn Ray

Rashawn Ray is professor of sociology and executive director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research at the University of Maryland. He is also a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His books include Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory, Education Inequality, and Social Change, coedited with Hoda Mahmoudi (Routledge, 2022), and, with Pamela Braboy Jackson, How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

Ray has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, Business Insider, and USA Today. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, PBS, and NPR. Ray regularly testifies at the federal and state levels on racial equity, policing and criminal justice reform, health policy, wealth, and family policy. He has received the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science, the Public Understanding of Sociology Award from the American Sociological Association, and the Morris Rosenberg Award for Outstanding Sociological Achievement from the DC Sociological Society.

His project, “Policy Solutions to Address Racial Disparities in Police Killings,” aims to understand the adoption of police reform legislation at the state and local levels that is in line with the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to generate research evidence that makes sense of where, when, and under what circumstances legislation has been successful in reducing racial disparities in police killings and use of force.

Twitter:
@SociologistRay

Instagram:
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