About

The Race, Research & Policy Portal (RRAPP) is a free online collection of easy-to-read summaries of the most current and foundational antiracist research. Each summary focuses on solutions at the institutional level, listing clear takeaways in a short format. And there’s no paywall.

Our goals are to:

Create a central repository for research and publications related to antiracist policy;
Foster an accessible, cross-sector, and constructive dialogue on effective antiracist interventions; and
Help changemakers make informed, strategic decisions in their organizations’ antiracist transformations.

RRAPP is created and managed by the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA), based at the School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. The project is directed by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs. Founded in 2019 at the Harvard Kennedy School, RRAPP was based at and supported by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation until 2025.

The Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project researches what works — and doesn’t work — to create antiracist change. Our mission is to promote antiracism as a core value and institutional norm across sectors. We achieve this by addressing intellectual and practical questions related to antiracism policy, practice, and institutional change.

Faculty Leadership

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

IARA Director and Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the inaugural Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. He is Board Chair of the Vera Institute of Justice, and a WGBH contributor to Boston Public Radio. He is the former Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global Black history. He co-hosted the Pushkin Industries podcast Some of My Best Friends Are.

Khalil’s scholarship examines the broad intersections of systemic racism, structural inequality, and democracy in U.S. History. He is the award-winning author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America and recently co-chaired a National Academies of Science study, Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice.

Editor

Artair Rogers

Ph.D. in Population Health Sciences candidate at Harvard School of Public Health

Artair Rogers is a doctoral student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health pursuing a Ph.D. in Population Health Sciences. Additionally, Artair currently serves as an equity advisor for Shift Health Accelerator, an organization focused on community governance, equitable institutional investments, and anti-racism accountability principles within the health care sector.

Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., Artair was the California Program Director for Health Leads, a national nonprofit focused on addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) in partnership with health systems, community-based organizations, and community members. . Previously, Artair served as a Senior Consultant for the Southern California Region of Kaiser Permanente where his work also focused on addressing SDOH in high utilizer patient populations.

Artair holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Leadership and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Mississippi. He also completed a Master of Science in Health Systems Administration from Georgetown University. Artair’s research interests are frameworks for anti-racism accountability for health care organizations, health equity data frameworks, and reparations as a public health measure.

Project Manager

Alison Pasquariello

IARA Associate Director

Alison Pasquariello is the Associate Director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project. She oversees the project’s strategic development and day-to-day operations.

Alison was taught to think ahead toward the next seven generations. For her, this means organizing movements around reproductive justice, climate justice, and decolonization. Alison is very grateful for working with organizations she believes in. Prior to joining the IARA Project, she brought to life impactful communications campaigns at justice-driven nonprofits such as What Design Can Do, Fossil Free Culture NL, and the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Alison holds a Research Masters from the University of Amsterdam’s Institute of Logic, Language, and Computation, where she published her thesis on time and its colonial applications past and present. She completed her Bachelors in Mathematics and Philosophy at Boston University, where she was a recipient of the Karbank Fellowship in Philosophy.

Technical Writers

Justin Herrera

Master of Public Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Justin Herrera is from Brooklyn, NY, and is a current MPH candidate at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he concentrates in Population and Family Health and is pursuing a certificate in Global Health. His work centers on maternal and child health, reproductive justice, LGBTQIA+ health, disability inclusion, and global health policy. As an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, he studied anthropology to examine how structural inequality, policy, and culture shape access to care, contributing to research on pregnancy outcomes for people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ health care access, and racial health disparities. He has since applied this interdisciplinary foundation to maternal health research, disability health outreach, rural health systems analysis, and community-based public health initiatives. Justin is deeply committed to advancing locally led, rights-based care and strengthening equitable global health policy and reproductive rights, and he aims to translate rigorous evidence into actionable policy recommendations and practical tools that support sustainable, community-driven health systems, build long-term local capacity, and ensure communities have the resources and authority to shape their own care. In his free time, he enjoys exploring new coffee shops, taking long walks through the city with his two dogs, and spending time with friends and family.

Kate Kushner

Master of Arts at Princeton University

Kate Kushner is a graduate student in the Departments of History and African American Studies at Princeton. Her research explores the history of governance in the American South by studying the government’s attempts to regulate violence in Richmond, Virginia, in the decades after the Civil War. Kate’s dissertation examines how race, class, gender, and sexuality shaped the forms of violence that people believed were legitimate and illegitimate in Richmond and explores how marginalized southerners shaped government action by advocating for themselves in the wake of violent events.

At Princeton, Kate has enjoyed working with undergraduate students as a teaching assistant and as a fellow at the Writing Center. She has also co-taught at East Jersey State Prison through Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative.

Before coming to Princeton, Kate graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science. She is originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, and is a proud graduate of North Carolina public schools.

Ranen Miao

Joint Degree JD-Harvard Law School and MPA Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Ranen is a proud New Jerseyan and current JD-MPA joint degree candidate at Harvard Law School and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. As an undergraduate at Washington University, he studied racial and gender inequalities through sociology coursework that formed the foundation of his intellectual and academic commitment to dismantling racism. In college, he interned at political campaigns, the ACLU, the EEOC, Congress, and did DEI work at the State Department, working on LGBTQIA+, immigration, civil, and human rights issues. Right before graduate school, he co-founded OutVote, an LGBTQIA+ civic engagement nonprofit, and researched LGBTQIA+ food insecurity at the DC Food Policy Council and inclusive apprenticeship practices at the Brookings Institution. After graduate school, he plans to become a civil rights lawyer working on legal challenges to racially inequitable practices. In his free time, Ranen enjoys biking, spending time with friends, and trying new foods.

Roderick Taylor
Masters in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

Roderick Taylor is a recent graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, where he earned a master’s degree in public policy. He currently serves as an Innovation Administrator for the City of San Antonio, where his work centers on improving how local government operates, from examining policies and internal processes to developing recommendations that support more effective city services.

Roderick’s broader research and policy experience spans workforce development, economic mobility, and racial equity. Before joining the IARA, he worked as a researcher at National Skills Coalition, the Urban Institute, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He also served on the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition. Roderick is interested in making research accessible and useful to people shaping public policy. In addition to his master’s degree in public policy, Roderick holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Velika Yasay

Master in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School

Velika is a proud Ilocana originally from Kalihi, Hawai’i, currently pursuing her Master in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her interests intersect decolonization, technology, and racial justice. She also holds a bachelor’s in anthropology from Willamette University in Oregon and an alumna of the PPIA JSI program at Carnegie Mellon University on their Data Analytics Track. She is passionate about the importance of storytelling as tool for policymaking and systemic change.

Acknowledgments

The IARA project would like to thank Ken Miller and Lybess Sweezy for their generous contribution and the Harvard Culture Innovation Lab grant which has made this portal possible. We would also like to thank the Woman and Public Policy program’s Gender Action Portal (GAP) for their assistance, encouragement, and support.

The IARA project would also like to acknowledge and thank Liz Schwartz and Anisha Asundi for their valuable work and assistance.

RRAPP’s website was designed and developed by Extra Small Design.