Wesleyan College is one of nine U.S. colleges and universities chosen to participate in a three-year project funded by a $5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each geographically dispersed and organizationally diverse institution will partner with a community organization to develop tangible, research-informed solutions for racial and social inequities. Wesleyan is proud……
Author: Whitney Dye
CDF Newsletter: August 2021
TEAM HIGHLIGHT As part of our internal Crafting Democratic Futures communications, we highlight one team’s story every month. This month, we’re sharing broadly the work of the Concordia College-Moorhead team. “At Concordia, we believe that the most distinctive contribution we can make to the Crafting Democratic Futures project is to focus on research and restorative……
Connecticut College Organizes Interviews with Young and Old on Race, Housing and New London
When Spencer Lancaster, a World War II Army veteran, bought a house in New London in 1972, the neighbors circulated a petition to keep him out. Lonnie Braxton II, a Navy veteran who tried to buy a house in New London around the same time, watched his friends at Electric Boat get approved for mortgages……
CDF Newsletter: July 2021
TEAM HIGHLIGHT As part of our internal Crafting Democratic Futures communications, we highlight one team’s story every month. This month, we’re sharing broadly the work of the Spelman College team. “The Spelman project is about truth telling first; then we move to racial healing,” commented Dr. Cynthia Spence, principal investigator of the Spelman team and……
CDF Newsletter: June 2021
Dear Colleagues of the Crafting Democratic Futures Initiative, The last month has seen encouraging progress from all—I believe I speak for all of us on the core team when I say that your work is truly inspirational. It is exciting to watch teams grow as community fellows and student researchers begin to populate our Zoom……
Concordia College Recipient of Mellon Funding for Racial Reparations Work
Concordia College Recipient of Mellon Funding
For Racial Reparations Work
CSS Names Dr. Jessica Cruz Managing Director of “Crafting Democratic Futures”
The Center for Social Solutions is pleased to announce the recent hire of Dr. Jessica Cruz, who will serve as managing director for the Mellon Foundation-funded project, “Crafting Democratic Futures.”
CIC Announces Partnership to Address Racial Inequities
Project to Offer University/Community-Based Racial Reparations Solutions
Rutgers- Newark Joins National Mellon Foundation Project to Address Racial Reparations
Three School of Arts & Sciences-Newark Faculty will lead Rutgers-Newark initiatives as part of a multi-institution project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to facilitate community-based solutions in Newark and cities nationally
Emory Joins National Mellon Foundation Research Project to Address Racial Reparations
Emory scholars will work with community partners in Atlanta to assess the toll that slavery, Jim Crow and its modern iteration have taken on the Black community, then work to craft policy recommendations for reparations to address those losses.