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Stanford creates initiative to augment existing efforts to invest with diverse asset managers
The Stanford Board of Trustees has approved an allocation of university reserve funds for a new program to invest in diverse asset managers.
January 18, 2022
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For Black Americans, COVID-19 is quickly reversing crucial economic gains
Research co-authored by SIEPR’s Peter Klenow and Chad Jones measures the welfare gap between Black and white Americans and provides a way to analyze policies to narrow the divide.
January 12, 2022
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Creating spaces for diverse and intellectual communities
Two programs sponsored by VPGE support building intellectual communities and expanding diversity among grad students and postdocs.
January 12, 2022
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Lerone A. Martin: the new faculty director of Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Lerone A. Martin on what we know—and don’t know—about Martin Luther King, Jr. and why access to information about him is more important than ever
January 12, 2022
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Meet Our Faculty: ‘It is incredibly powerful when we see each other’
Elizabeth Anne Reese, Yunpoví, the first Native American faculty member at Stanford Law, is working to shatter invisibilities that she says have been “comfortably the status quo”
January 11, 2022
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Are Your Data Visualizations Racist?
Three ways to be more equitable and inclusive with your data and data visualizations.
December 02, 2021
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Interview: Bringing an Anti-Racist Approach to Collective Impact
Two collective impact leaders discuss using the framework to achieve social change and how to put anti-racism at the center of cross-sector collaborations.
November 29, 2021
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Stanford community members participate in event decrying the racial profiling of scientists of Chinese descent
The recent online event presented results from a survey of scientists documenting the chilling effect of federal national security policies.
November 18, 2021
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Stanford's Campus-wide DEI Survey Results
Stanford released the findings from Stanford’s first-ever campus-wide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) survey, conducted in May of this year.
November 17, 2021
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Rethinking Race, Dismantling Racism, Furthering Justice Panel Discussion
Learn how the Stanford Center for Racial Justice (SCRJ) aims to advance justice for all people and hear from alumni leaders advancing these efforts in various ways.
November 16, 2021
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Land acknowledgment website honors relationships with Native peoples
A new website with the university’s official land acknowledgment encourages its use at events and celebrates ties to the Muwekma Ohlone and other Native communities.
October 08, 2021
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Stanford history project centers on marginalized Bay Area community
Stanford historians are illuminating the complex story of environmental damage in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.
September 22, 2021
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Anger and sadness soared following George Floyd’s death, particularly among Black Americans, Stanford psychologists find
As the nation mourned the death of George Floyd, more Black Americans than white Americans felt angry or sad – a finding that reveals the racial disparities of grief.
September 20, 2021
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Conversations about race between Black and white friends feel risky, but are valuable, Stanford psychologists find
New research about how friends approach talking about their race-related experiences with each other reveals concerns but also the potential
September 20, 2021
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Study reveals differences in how Black and white U.S. parents talked to their kids about race and racism before and after George Floyd’s death
After George Floyd’s murder, Black parents talked about race and racism with their kids more. White parents did not and were more likely to give their kids colorblind messages.
September 15, 2021
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Stanford Center for Racial Justice Appoints Executive Director
Stanford Law School has appointed George Brown, an advocate for social and racial justice with three decades of corporate law experience, as Executive Director of the SCRJ.
September 14, 2021
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Lerone A. Martin appointed next faculty director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Lerone A. Martin is the second faculty director appointed in the history of the Institute, following Clayborne Carson’s retirement in 2020.
August 30, 2021
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Two IDEAL faculty hires in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Destin Jenkins and Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh will join the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences faculty
August 20, 2021
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And Justice For All: Improving Access Through Digital Tools, Innovative Design
Stanford Law faculty, students and alumni discuss how the pandemic could speed technology and practice solutions to the access-to-justice crisis.
August 06, 2021
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JSK names 10 Community Impact Fellows for 2021-2022
The 10 John S. Knight Community Impact Fellows will work remotely in their communities to address journalism’s neglect of communities of color.
August 04, 2021
