Kirwan Institute Expert Sources
john a. powell, Executive Director (bio)
Stimulus Funding (video link)
john powell says the recovery money from the stimulus needs to be examined as to who it is reaching. Professor powell also talks about housing policies, the extreme racial aspect of society's structural organization and Detroit and its broken school system.
Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director (bio)
Prisoners should have right to vote; hidden biases (video link)
Andrew Grant-Thomas talks about crime and the disproportionate number of Blacks and Latinos in prison due to the allocation of resources; he also talks about prisoners having the right to vote and says we all should be open to our own hidden biases.
Jason Reece, Senior Researcher (bio)
Stimulus funds not targeted properly (video link)
Jason Reece talks about how economic resources are being spread too thin, adversely affecting those communities in greatest need.
Michelle Alexander, Associate Professor of Law with a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute (bio)
Is there racial bias in our criminal justice system? (video link)
Michelle Alexander talks about how U.S. law enforcement targets people of color, why it's difficult to prove racial discrimination and what it will take to end racial bias in our criminal justice system.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor of History with a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute (bio)
Arizona immigration law is problematic (video link)
Hasan Kwame Jeffries talks about the Arizona immigration law and how it is intrusive and un-American. New policy, he says, must be looked at in a humane way - accepting people who come into our country as assets, not "drains."
