Our Executive Director, Professor john a. powell, is an internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty and the law. He is the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. He also holds the Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law.
He has written extensively on a number of issues including racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, the link between housing and school segregation, opportunity-based housing, gentrification, disparities in the criminal justice system, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity and current demographic trends.
http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/about/john_powell.htmlMAILING ADDRESS
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
433 Mendenhall Laboratories
125 S Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
PHONE/FAX
614-688-5429 (ph)
614-688-5592 (fax)
CONTACT EMAIL
Barbara Carter (Office Associate)
carter.647@osu.edu 
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