Race, Inequality, and Policy Initiative
WELCOME
The Race, Inequality, and Policy Initiative (RIPI) is a multidisciplinary research initiative created to support research, teaching, and community engagement activities that enhance our understanding of and address the racial, ethnic, and gender inequities and inequalities that exist in the U.S.
MISSION
RIPI fulfills a dual mission centered on scholarly collaboration and public impact. The initiative brings together faculty and students to analyze how U.S. policy drives or reduces racial, ethnic, and gender inequalities across key domains such as immigration, housing, education, crime, and the environment. Concurrently, it offers students hands-on opportunities to conduct research addressing these systemic challenges, producing insights that directly serve and support the broader community.
RIPI supports and promotes asking questions about local and national equity issues. We believe that if we truly are committed to Pro Humanitate our activities will:
1.) Raise awareness of the faults of policies, policy actors and institutions (even our own!);
2.) Develop empathic understanding of the complex ways marginalized individuals interact within systems and institutions; and
3.) Focus on policy solutions to today’s sociopolitical problems.
RIPI’s mission is accomplished through speaker series, virtual libraries, undergraduate research fellows program, faculty research seminars, and student research symposia
